February 27:   Scotland: a case study

Guest lecture by Professor John Wright, Department of Philosophy: “Morality and Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment”

Readings:

James Buchan, Crowded with Genius, pp. 58-140.

Selections from David Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and  Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) in The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader, pp. 71-75 and pp. 214-16

David Hume, “Of Superstition and Enthusiasm” (1741)

http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0059#hd_lf012.head.029

David Hume, “Natural History of Religion” (esp. Sect. XIV) (1757)

Hume, The Natural History of Religion (1757): The Online Library of Liberty

James Harris, "Answering Bayle's question: religious belief in the moral philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment", in Daniel Garber and Steven Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume I   (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003): 229-53.

(This article is available from Professor Harsanyi)