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Political economy in transition: From classical humanism to commercial society - Robert Wallace of Edinburgh
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The Road to Virtue and the Road to Fortune: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Problem of Individualism in Commercial Society
<p>As commercial society began to emerge in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, it was widely thought to be inherently individualistic--whether such individualism was viewed as a strength, in the Mandevillean view, or as a weakness, by the civic humanists. Five thinkers from the Scottish …
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Commerce, Credit, and Capitalism: Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, 1688-1776
… scholarly attention. Political theorists of commercial society had little trouble in identifying finance as a qualitatively different activity from trading. The unfamiliarity soon became open hostility, particularly towards the politically explosive institution of public credit. The three …
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The culture of crime: representations of the criminal in eighteen-century England
… reflected public anxieties over the increasing commercialization of England during the early eighteenth century. It accounts for the popularity of the criminal in literature as well as public concerns about commercialization and the individuality it encouraged, revealing how these concerns were …
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Essential and Ubiquitous: The Inns of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… traditional, feudal values and a progressive, commercial society. They at once represent inward domesticity and outward society, classical hospitality and commercial enterprise, and class stratification and class amalgamation. Writers throughout the century understood the inimitable role the …
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Rethinking Uncertainty: Spinoza and Hume on Shaping Uncertain Secular Futures
… liberal democracy, and Hume's arguments favoring commercial society, are highlighted as instances of constructive uncertainty. The dissertation concludes by applying a general understanding of constructive uncertainty to the ideology of the American Dream in order to illustrate suggestively how a …
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and ‘le hobbisme le plus parfait’: An historical and philosophical study of Rousseau’s engagement with Thomas Hobbes and Hobbism
… by revealing that the <br/>modern defenders of commercial society rested their theories on a Hobbesian picture of man’s natural condition. This picture closely resembled the neo-Augustinian account of man’s postlapsarian state, and by rejecting this Augustinian-Hobbesian depiction of man …