Religion and the Science of Human Nature in the Scottish Enlightenment

R. J. W. Mills is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews, UK.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Religion and the Start of the Science of Human Nature: Campbell, Turnbull and Hume.- Chapter 3 David Hume and the Emptiness of Natural Religion.- Chapter 4 Adam Smith on Religious Psychology in Society.- Chapter 5 Henry Home, Lord Kames on Mechanistic Human Nature.- Chapter 6 David Hume’s ‘Natural History of Religion’ (1757).- Chapter 7 William Robertson on Revelation and the Limits of Progress.- chapter 8  Adam Ferguson, Stoicism and the Individual Alone.- Chapter 9  George Campbell on Miracles and the Weakness of Hume’s ‘Science of Man’.- Chapter 10 John Gregory on Human Nature, Happiness and Religious Devotion.- Chapter 11 James Dunbar on Climate and Civil Religion..- Chapter 12 James Burnett, Lord Monboddo on Egyptian Daemons.- 13. The Radicalism of James Hutton.- 14. Dugald Stewart, Religion and the End of the ‘Science of Human Nature’.- 15 Conclusion.