From progression of manners to natural history of mankind: Scottish thinking on historical temporality
At the second half of the eighteenth century, Scottish thinkers David Hume, William Robertson,Adam Smith, Lord Kames (Henry Home), and Adam Ferguson wrote extensively on the stages ofhuman society, from its origins to civilisation. These works fashioned a typically Scottishhistoriographical genre, t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) |
| Repositorio: | História da Historiografia |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br:article/210 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/210 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | History of historiography History of ideas Scottish Enlightenment Historia de la historiografía Historia de las ideas Iluminismo escocés História da historiografia História das idéias Iluminismo escocês |
| Sumario: | At the second half of the eighteenth century, Scottish thinkers David Hume, William Robertson,Adam Smith, Lord Kames (Henry Home), and Adam Ferguson wrote extensively on the stages ofhuman society, from its origins to civilisation. These works fashioned a typically Scottishhistoriographical genre, the ‘Natural history of mankind’. This genre, intimate of the Age ofEnlightenment in its Scottish form, divided the evolution of mankind in stages and establishedmoral values for each one. Here, my goal is to draw a summary of this historiographical trend. |
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