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Book Robert Burns and the Philosophers

Download or read book Robert Burns and the Philosophers written by J Walter McGinty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume expounds the influence of Robert Burns’s reading of Philosophy on his life and work, supplementing this with his personal encounters with those philosophers he met. The work begins with the Homespun Philosophy of his early years under the tutelage of William Burnes and John Murdoch, then examines in detail some of the texts of John Locke, Adam Smith and Francis Hutcheson, including other writers who reflect Hutcheson’s thinking. Further chapters include the exploration on Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Archibald Alison and William Greenfield. Robert Burns and the Philosophers does not purport to be a work of philosophy but rather to show the poet’s reaction to the subject and the development of his understanding. This work opens up a subject that hitherto has been almost unexplored.

Book From Form to Philosophy

Download or read book From Form to Philosophy written by Lorraina Pinnell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Performing Robert Burns

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  • Author : Ian Brown
  • Publisher : EUP
  • Release : 2022-11-19
  • ISBN : 9781474457156
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Performing Robert Burns written by Ian Brown and published by EUP. This book was released on 2022-11-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to the worldwide community of Burns enthusiasts, without compromising on scholarship. Contributors have been selected not only for their academic rigour and reputation, but also because of their ability to handle their material with elegance and accessibility for the general reader. They offer fresh insights for both academic and general readers, not least through the volume's interdisciplinary approaches, including a contribution from the great interpreter of Burns's songs, Sheena Wellington. A key part of this volume's attraction lies in the way it opens up fresh issues and aspects of performance and performativity and their impact on our perception of Robert Burns and his work.

Book Adam Smith s Lost Legacy

Download or read book Adam Smith s Lost Legacy written by G. Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-02-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political economy and his lectures on Jurisprudence. The book provides a new analysis of Wealth of Nations , and argues that Adam Smith's intellectual legacy was completely transformed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries by economists pursuing different agendas, to create ideas and policies that Smith did not advocate. It also provides a new explanation for the main mysteries about Smith's later life.

Book The Real Robert Burns

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  • Author : James Laughlin Hughes
  • Publisher : London : W. & R. Chambers ; Toronto : Ryerson Press
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The Real Robert Burns written by James Laughlin Hughes and published by London : W. & R. Chambers ; Toronto : Ryerson Press. This book was released on 1922 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genius and Morality of Robert Burns

Download or read book Genius and Morality of Robert Burns written by Peter Hately Waddell and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Adam Smith

Download or read book The Works of Adam Smith written by Adam Smith and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poems and Songs

Download or read book Poems and Songs written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Burns and Other Poets

Download or read book Burns and Other Poets written by David Sergeant and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary cultureIn this volume, 17 leading Burns scholars, poetry critics and practising poets reflect on the enduring significance of one of the most important poets of the 18th century. They show that Burns was a highly innovative and technically accomplished poet, as capable of transforming earlier traditions as of launching new literary trends.Looks at Burns' place amongst his literary predecessors, contemporaries and heirs, including:* Scottish poets such as Ramsay, Fergusson, Byron, Hogg, MacDiarmid, Paterson, Dunn & Mackay Brown* English poets such as Milton, Addison, Gray & Wordsworth* Classical writers such as Virgil* Irish poets such as Merriman, Goldsmith, Dermody & HeaneyBy looking at Burns in the context of other poets, each chapter sheds new lighton his own practices and the practice of poetry in general. They investigate the political, national, philosophical and ethical aspects of his poetry, showing how you can deepen

Book The Great Debate on Miracles

Download or read book The Great Debate on Miracles written by Robert M. Burns and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of a survey of the great debate on miracles, which, though it was a major feature of the English literary scene in the period in question, has never before been researched in depth. The arguments of Boyle, Locke, Clarke, and Butler (along with those of others) are considered, and Hume's famous essay "Of Miracles" is examined more closely than ever before.

Book A Theory of the Trial

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  • Author : Robert P. Burns
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2001-10-08
  • ISBN : 1400823374
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book A Theory of the Trial written by Robert P. Burns and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has sat on a jury or followed a high-profile trial on television usually comes to the realization that a trial, particularly a criminal trial, is really a performance. Verdicts seem determined as much by which lawyer can best connect with the hearts and minds of the jurors as by what the evidence might suggest. In this celebration of the American trial as a great cultural achievement, Robert Burns, a trial lawyer and a trained philosopher, explores how these legal proceedings bring about justice. The trial, he reminds us, is not confined to the impartial application of legal rules to factual findings. Burns depicts the trial as an institution employing its own language and styles of performance that elevate the understanding of decision-makers, bringing them in contact with moral sources beyond the limits of law. Burns explores the rich narrative structure of the trial, beginning with the lawyers' opening statements, which establish opposing moral frameworks in which to interpret the evidence. In the succession of witnesses, stories compete and are held in tension. At some point during the performance, a sense of the right thing to do arises among the jurors. How this happens is at the core of Burns's investigation, which draws on careful descriptions of what trial lawyers do, the rules governing their actions, interpretations of actual trial material, social science findings, and a broad philosophical and political appreciation of the trial as a unique vehicle of American self-government.

Book Life of Robert Burns

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  • Author : Thomas Carlyle
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-09-16
  • ISBN : 9781517382476
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book Life of Robert Burns written by Thomas Carlyle and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. Following this ground-breaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence." Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays - Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, published respectively in 1841 and 1844 - represent the core of his thinking, and include such well-known essays as Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet and Experience. Together with Nature, these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul." Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world." He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that have followed him. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of fellow Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

Book The Philosophy of Robert Burns Discussed from the Viewpoint of an Australian Native

Download or read book The Philosophy of Robert Burns Discussed from the Viewpoint of an Australian Native written by James Larcombe and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Robert Burns  With an Account of His Life  and a Criticism on His Writings  To Which Are Prefixed  Some Observation on the Character and Condition of Scottish Peasantry  3

Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns With an Account of His Life and a Criticism on His Writings To Which Are Prefixed Some Observation on the Character and Condition of Scottish Peasantry 3 written by Robert 1759-1796 Burns and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns

Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns written by Ferenc Morton Szasz and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the images of Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln are recognized worldwide, yet few are aware of the connection between the two. In Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends, author Ferenc Morton Szasz reveals how famed Scots poet Robert Burns—and Scotland in general—influenced the life and thought of one of the most beloved and important U.S. presidents and how the legends of the two men became intertwined after their deaths. This is the first extensive work to link the influence, philosophy, and artistry of these two larger-than-life figures. Lacking a major national poet of their own in the early nineteenth century, Americans in the fledgling frontier country ardently adopted the poignant verses and songs of Scotland’s Robert Burns. Lincoln, too, was fascinated by Scotland’s favorite son and enthusiastically quoted the Scottish bard from his teenage years to the end of his life. Szasz explores the ways in which Burns’s portrayal of the foibles of human nature, his scorn for religious hypocrisy, his plea for nonjudgmental tolerance, and his commitment to social equality helped shape Lincoln’s own philosophy of life. The volume also traces how Burns’s lyrics helped Lincoln develop his own powerful sense of oratorical rhythm, from his casual anecdotal stories to his major state addresses. Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns connects the poor-farm-boy upbringings, the quasi-deistic religious views, the shared senses of destiny, the extraordinary gifts for words, and the quests for social equality of two respected and beloved world figures. This book is enhanced by twelve illustrations and two appendixes, which include Burns poems Lincoln particularly admired and Lincoln writings especially admired in Scotland.

Book Literary  Philosophical and Theological Influences on Robert Burns

Download or read book Literary Philosophical and Theological Influences on Robert Burns written by Joseph Walter McGinty and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Robert Burns  With an Account of His Life  and a Criticism on His Writings  To Which Are Prefixed  Some Observation on the Character and Condition of Scottish Peasantry  1

Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns With an Account of His Life and a Criticism on His Writings To Which Are Prefixed Some Observation on the Character and Condition of Scottish Peasantry 1 written by Robert 1759-1796 Burns and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.