Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment

by David Allan

This is a reassessment of the moral and theological foundations of modern Europe. It challenges a number of deeply rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and of Enlightenments in general. It argues that the formidable dual influences of humanism and Calvinism forced a discussion about the essentially moral function of scholarship and learning to the very centre of intellectual debate in early modern Scotland, and that this in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748604383
• ISBN13: 9780748604388
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher