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Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change between 1772 and 1828. Stewart was a child of the Scottish Enlightenment, who inherited the Scottish philosophical tradition of teaching metaphysics as moral philosophy from the tuition of Adam Ferguson and Thomas Reid. But the Scottish Enlightenment intellectual culture of his youth changed in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Stewart sustained the Scottish school of philosophy by transforming the tradition of teaching the science of mind as professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His elementary system of moral education fostered an empire of the mind in the universal pursuit of happiness. The democratization of Stewart's didactic Enlightenment-the instruction of moral improvement-in a globalizing, interconnected nineteenth-century knowledge economy will be examined in this book.

In this second volume on the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, a team of leading experts explore philosophical method, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the teaching of philosophy in Scottish universities and Scottish achievements in the science of the mind.

This new history of Scottish philosophy will include two volumes that focus on the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. In this first volume, a team of leading experts explore the ideas, intellectual context, and influence of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Reid, and many other thinkers.