Philosophical Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: Key Texts

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-906245-53-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 396 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Scottish History Society 6th Series

Featuring texts by thirteen early modern Scottish philosophers, this book demonstrates both the liveliness of their discussions and also their well-informed responses to the writings of their contemporaries elsewhere in Europe.

In recent decades there has been a good deal of research on Scottish philosophy of the sixteenth century, the Reformation century, and there are two centuries of research on the philosophy of eighteenth-century Scotland, the Enlightenment century. But there has been almost nothing on the philosophy of the intervening period. This book demonstrates that that silence is not due to Scots having nothing to say of philosophical interest during the period from 1600 to 1700, for they said a good deal then that merits the attention of philosophers, and indeed also of historians, theologians, natural scientists and others. This book demonstrates that Scotland had a rich, vibrant, well-informed philosophical culture, and had Scotland lacked such a culture, the lack would have been a great obstacle to the emergence of the Scottish Enlightenment. Seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy is therefore of interest both in itself and in its implications for its successor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Broadie, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Alexander Broadie and Giovanni Gellera

The context and character of seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy

2 Giovanni Gellera

William Robertson on natural and moral philosophy, in Theses philosophicae, Edinburgh 1596

3 Giovanni Gellera

James Gleg's logical, ethical and physical theses, in Theses aliquot, logicae, ethicae, physicae, et astronomicae, St Andrews 1609

4 Simon J. G. Burton

John Forbes of Corse on morals in his Theses philosophicae, Aberdeen 1624

5 Matthew Baines

James Sibbald on logic, ethics, physics and metaphysics, in his Theses philosophicae, Aberdeen 1625

6 Alexander Broadie

William Chalmers on evil for the sake of evil, in Selectae disputationes philosophicae, Paris 1630

7 Simon J. G. Burton

Samuel Rutherford on the will of God and the goodness of things in Disputatio Scholastica de divina providentia 1649

8 Christian Maurer

William Campbell on salvific faith, love of God and the moral law, in Theses philosophicae, St Andrews 1657

9 Alexander Broadie

Robert Baron on the assent of knowledge and the assent of faith, in Metaphysica generalis, Leiden 1657

10 Christian Maurer

Alexander Alexander on moral and political philosophy, and on whether animals have souls, in Philosophemata libera, Aberdeen 1669

11 Christian Maurer

George Middleton on the soul and its faculties, in Theses philosophicae, Aberdeen 1675

12 Alexander Broadie

James Dundas on the just war, in Idea philosophiae moralis, 1679

13 Giovanni Gellera

James Dalrymple on the principles of natural philosophy, in Physiologia nova experimentalis, Leiden 1686

14 Christian Maurer

John Boyd on happiness, virtue and freedom, in Theses philosophicae, Glasgow 1693

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Broadie, Alexander
Alexander Broadie is Professor Emeritus of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is the author of twenty books, many of them on the history of Scottish philosophy. He led the Leverhulme-funded international project 'Scottish philosophers and their philosophy in the seventeenth century' (2010-2014) and received the degree Hon DUniv (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand) for services to Franco-Scottish relations between historians of philosophy.