Cover; Title page; Author biography; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; ONE Introduction; TWO The Enlightenment in Scotland; 1 The problem of origin; 2 Thinking for yourself; 3 Theory and practice; 4 Light and darkness; 5 The literati; 6 The age of criticism; 7 Improvement; THREE History and Enlightenment; 1 Why study the past?; 2 The dynamic of society; 3 History and national identity; 4 History and moral philosophy; 5 Conjectural history; 6 The course of history; FOUR Morality and Civil Society; 1 Some key concepts; 2 Nature and society; 3 The fragility of freedom; 4 Patriotism as a passion. 5 Sympathy and education6 A general education; FIVE Enlightened Religion; 1 Religion and Enlightenment; 2 The Natural History of Religion; 3 Why dialogue?; 4 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; 5 Kames in trouble; 6 The view from the pulpit of St Giles; SIX Enlightenment in the Arts; 1 Whaur's yer Wullie Shakespeare noo?; 2 Scots in Rome; 3 Painting and education; 4 Portraiture; 5 The craft of painting; 6 Hutcheson's aesthetics; 7 Hume on the standard of taste; SEVEN Science and Enlightenment; 1 Science and its unity; 2 The psychology of scientific discovery. 3 Theology and Newtonian science4 The blind geometer; 5 The age of the earth; Epilogue The End of the Scottish Enlightenment?; Bibliography.