Enlightenment, Scottish

References and further reading

	Berry, C. (1997) The Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Provides both a detailed analysis and a synoptic overview, including a survey of interpretations.)
	Blackwell, T. (1735) An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer, repr. Menston: Scolar Press 1972. (Investigates the reciprocal relationships between the poet, his poetry and his socio-cultural context.)
	Blair, H. (1783) Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres, ed. H.F. Harding, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2 vols 1965. (A largely derivative but for that reason valuably indicative assembly of contemporary views on literary and aesthetic topics.)
	Campbell, G. (1776) The Philosophy of Rhetoric, ed. L. Bitzer, Carbondale, IL and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. (Investigates how language, widely understood, is linked to the faculties of human nature.)
	Campbell, R. and Skinner, A. (1982) The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh: Donald. (A collection which deals both with the institutional setting, precursors and aspects of the Scots’ thought).
	Collingwood, R. (1961) The Idea of History, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Outlines his idealist philosophy of history and criticizes alternative views.)
	Dunbar, J. (1780) Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2nd edn, 1781. (Develops a distinctive view of psychological and social development.)
	Ferguson, A. (1767) An Essay on the History of Civil Society, ed. D. Forbes, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1966. (Frequently interpreted as a pioneering work of sociology, it is a wide-ranging moralistic assessment of commercial society in a broad historical sweep.)
	Gerard, A. (1780), Gainsville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1963. (Applies associationist principles to literary criticism.)
	Hayek, F. (1960) The Constitution of Liberty, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Important statement of Hayek’s philosophy where his debt to the Scots is acknowledged.)
	Hont, I. and Ignatieff, M. (1983) Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A collection of articles focusing on the Scots’ analyses of commerce.)
	Hume, D. (1739–40) A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge; revised P.H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. (One of philosophy’s great books that Hume himself later dismissed in preference for his subsequent writing)
	Hume, D. (1741–77) Essays Moral Political and Literary, ed. E.F. Miller, Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Press, revised edn. 1987. (Important collection, especially for Hume’s economic and political thinking.)
	Hume, D. (1757) Natural History of Religion, ed. W. Colver, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. (Traces the development of religious belief from its roots in human nature)
	Hutcheson, F. (1725) Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, London and Dublin. (Contains his first formulation of the philosophy of moral sense.)
	Kames, Lord (Home, H.) (1751) Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion, Edinburgh: Kincaid & Donaldson; revised London: Hitch & Hawes; Dodsley, Rivington, Fletcher & Richardson, 1758; Edinburgh: Bell & Murray, 1779. (Contains critiques of Hutcheson, Hume and Smith, late editions amended the necessitarianism of the first edition.)
	Kames, Lord (Home, H.) (1758) Historical Law Tracts, Edinburgh: Kincaid & Bell; London: Millar, 2 vols; revised and enlarged, Edinburgh: Bell & Creech; London: Cadell, 1776, 1 vol. (Traces the evolution of legal thinking, important for its evocation of stages of social development.)
	Kames, Lord (Home, H.) (1774) Sketches on the History of Man, Edinburgh: Creech; London: Strahan & Cadell; 3rd edn with Kames’ last additions and corrections, Edinburgh: Creech; London: Strahan & Cadell, 1778. (A rambling comendium that deals idiosyncratically with most aspects of social life.)
	Millar, J. (1779) The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks, 3rd. amended edn, repr. in W. Lehmann (ed.), John Millar of Glasgow, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960. (The Ranks is another work that has been identified as a significant early sociological treatise.)
	Millar, J. (1787–1803) Historical View of the English Government; excerpts repr. in W. Lehmann (ed.), John Millar of Glasgow, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960. (The last 4 vols were published posthumously.)
	Reid, T. (1764) Inquiry into the Human Mind, On the Principles of Common Sense, Edinburgh. (The seminal statement of Common Sense philosophy.)
	Robertson, W. (1777) The History of America, ed. D. Stewart, in 1 vol. London: William Ball, 1740. (Book 4 contains an important discussion of Amerindian society.)
	Sher, R. (1985) Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Contains a lengthy bibliography.)
	Smith, A. (1757) The Theory of Moral Sentiments ed. A. Macfie and D. Raphael, Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Press, 1982. (A major work that outlines a philosophical psychology of moral judgment.)
	Smith, A. (1776) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. R. Campbell and A. Skinner, Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Press, 1981. (Epoch-making work that laid the foundation for analytical economics and advocated free trade.)
	Stewart, M.A. (1990) Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (A mix of general and specific – especially on Hume – essays.)