UID:
almahu_9949363120002882
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages) :
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illustrations (colour).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780191964787
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change between 1772 and 1828. Stewart was a child of the Scottish Enlightenment, who inherited the Scottish philosophical tradition of teaching metaphysics as moral philosophy from the tuition of Adam Ferguson and Thomas Reid. But the Scottish Enlightenment intellectual culture of his youth changed in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Stewart sustained the Scottish school of philosophy by transforming the tradition of teaching the science of mind as professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His elementary system of moral education fostered an empire of the mind in the universal pursuit of happiness. The democratization of Stewart's didactic Enlightenment-the instruction of moral improvement-in a globalizing, interconnected nineteenth-century knowledge economy will be examined in this book.
Note:
Abbreviations -- Introduction: Situating Dugald Stewart in the Scottish Enlightenment -- 1. Becoming a Moral Pedagogue, 1772−1792 -- 2. Democratizing Moral Education, 1792−1802 -- 3. Teaching Moral Economy, 1799−1809 -- 4. Defending Didactic Enlightenment, 1805−1815 -- 5. Globalizing a Moral Empire of the Mind, 1816−1828 -- Epilogue: Recovering Stewart's Legacy after the Scottish Enlightenment -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Also available in Print and PDF edition.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Dugald Stewart's empire of the mind : moral education in the late Scottish enlightenment. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780192865380
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
