June 2018
Beginner
480 pages
15h 56m
English
Nicholas B. Miller
Nicholas B. Miller, Universität Potsdam (UP) / Universidade de Lisboa
Abstract: This article contributes to the evaluation of how historical philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment reflected upon incipient processes and forces of globalization. Drawing upon assessments of colonial Spanish America by late eighteenth-century Scottish philosophical historians, including William Robertson, Lord Kames, John Millar, Adam Smith and David Hume, the article considers the challenges Enlightenment-era thinkers encountered in balancing universal accounts of mankind with extensive human difference in a context particularly ...
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