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4 - Anthropology

The ‘Original’ of Human Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2019

By
Aaron Garrett
Edited by
Alexander Broadie  and
Craig Smith
Alexander Broadie
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
Craig Smith
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
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The chapter explores conjectural history, stadial history, and anthropology in the Scottish Enlightenment. In the writings of Adam Smith, John Millar, David Hume, Lord Kames, and many others concepts that had been assumed to have no history — such as sentiment — were rethought against the background of a theory of historical stages and progress. Special attention is paid to the analogies between animals and humans, and to race.

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Human Natureanimalsracestadial historyanthropology. Kames
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The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment , pp. 74 - 89
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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