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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.
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.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 396
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Scottish History Society
Series: Scottish History Society 6th Series
Publication Date:
15 December 2026
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.43 in
ISBN: 9780906245538
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
HISTORY / Europe / General, Humanist philosophy, European history: Renaissance
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
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