Free Download The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen, Keith Sellon-Wright, Tantor Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07CVKC8DD | MP3@64 kbps | 10 hrs 7 mins | 278 Mb
This is the story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships – and how it influenced modern thought.
David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime, he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were best friends for most of their adult lives, sharing what Dennis Rasmussen calls the greatest of all philosophical friendships.
The Infidel and the Professor is the first audiobook to tell the fascinating story of the friendship of these towering Enlightenment thinkers – and how it influenced their world-changing ideas. The audiobook follows Hume and Smith’s relationship from their first meeting in 1749, until Hume’s death in 1776. It describes how they commented on each other’s writings, supported each other’s careers and literary ambitions, and advised each other on personal matters, most notably after Hume’s quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Members of a vibrant intellectual scene in Enlightenment Scotland, Hume and Smith made many of the same friends (and enemies), joined the same clubs, and were interested in many of the same subjects well beyond philosophy and economics – from psychology and history to politics and Britain’s conflict with the American colonies.
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