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  Dugald Stewart - LoveToKnow 1911
DUGALD STEWART (1753-1828), Scottish philosopher, was born in Edinburgh on the 22nd of November 1753.
Dugald Stewart was educated in Edinburgh at the high school and the university, where he read mathematics and moral philosophy under Adam Ferguson.
After a single session in Glasgow, Dugald Stewart, at the age of nineteen, was summoned by his father, whose health was beginning to fail, to conduct the mathematical classes in the university of Edinburgh.
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 Dugald Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dugald Stewart (November 22, 1753 - June 11, 1828), Scottish philosopher, was born in Edinburgh.
His father, Matthew Stewart (1715 - 1785), was professor of mathematics in the university of Edinburgh (1747 - 1772).
On the death of Brown in 1820 Stewart retired altogether from the professorship, which was conferred upon John Wilson, better known as "Christopher North," From 1809 onwards Stewart lived mainly at Kinneil House, Linhithgowshire, which was placed at his disposal by the Duke of Hamilton.
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 Stewart_Dugald biography
Dugald Stewart's father was Matthew Stewart who was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh at the time Dugald was born.
Stewart taught mathematics at Edinburgh for 13 years until Adam Ferguson resigned in 1785 when he was appointed to the philosophy chair and resigned from the chair of mathematics.
Stewart's affinity for the scientific approach to philosophical problems is reflected in his mathematics career, and he often made analogies between the axioms of mathematics and the laws that govern human thinking.
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Stewart_Dugald.html   (1071 words)

  
 Dugald Stewart Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart (1753-1828) was a proponent of Reid's commonsense philosophy in Scotland.
Dugald Stewart was born on Nov. 22, 1753, in Edinburgh.
Stewart's chief concern was to formulate a philosophy of mind through the use of the inductive method of Sir Francis Bacon.
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 Dugald Stewart
STEWART, DUGALD, a celebrated metaphysical writer, was the only son who survived the age of infancy, of Dr Matthew Stewart, professor of mathematics in the university of Edinburgh, and of Marjory Stewart, daughter of Archibald Stewart, Esq., writer to the signet.
To this season he always referred as the most laborious of his life; and such was the exhaustion of the body, from the intense and continued stretch of the mind, that, on his departure for London, at the close of the academical session, it was necessary to lift him into the carriage.
Mr Stewart’s monument is an elegant Grecian temple, with a simple cinerary urn in the centre, and occupies a most fortunate situation on the south-west shoulder of the Calton hill, near the Observatory.
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 The Primacy of Moral Philosophy: Dugald Stewart and the Scottish Enlightenment
Dugald Stewart was an influential teacher and philosopher during the final years of the Scottish Enlightenment.
The thesis argues that Stewart faced a new problem: he had to deal with attacks on moral philosophy - the core subject of the Edinburgh University curriculum - some of which were produced by institutional and political factors affecting the Scottish universities, others by the rising authority of the experimental physical sciences.
Thereafter, Stewart was engaged in what he saw as an urgent task - the defence of the very status of philosophy and the role of the philosopher.
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 Stewart, Dugald. Letter. MSS 266
Dugald Stewart was born on November 22, 1753 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Stewart’s chief concern was to formulate a philosophy of the mind through the use of the inductive method of Sr.
Stewart also inquires about the well being of his own son, who is stationed at the Woolwich school where Mr.
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 Scottish Philosophy in the 18th Century (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Stewart succeeded his father in the chair of mathematics at Edinburgh, and then in 1785 became professor of pneumatic and moral philosophy at Edinburgh when Ferguson resigned the chair.
For Stewart such enquiries are of practical importance, for by them ‘a check is given to that indolent philosophy, which refers to a miracle, whatever appearances, both in the natural and moral worlds, it is unable to explain’.
Dugald Stewart formulates the principle underlying conjectural history: it has ‘long been received as an incontrovertible logical maxim that the capacities of the human mind have been in all ages the same, and that the diversity of phenomena exhibited by our species is the result merely of the different circumstances in which men are placed’.
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 §11. Dugald Stewart. III. Bentham and the Early Utilitarians. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The ...
During the period of Bentham’s supremacy, the tradition of a different type of philosophy was carried on by Dugald Stewart.
Stewart was born in 1753 and died in 1828; for twenty-five years (1785–1810), he was professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh.
But he avoided the use of the term “common sense,” which, as employed by Reid, had produced the impression that questions of philosophy could be decided by an appeal to popular judgment.
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 Dugald Stewart - Gordon Macintyre
Stewart was so well-connected, indeed, that many other characters appear in the story, including men of letters, such as Robert Burns and Walter Scott, and leading politicians of the day.
The philosopher Dugald Stewart was among the most celebrated thinkers of his age.
His wife was a generous hostess whose lively and amusing letters are quoted extensively in the book, and she and Stewart are shown to have been significant figures in the cultural life of the time.
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 Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind (1792), p.
It will be said, that it was his sensibility which originally aroused his imagination; and the observation is undoubtedly true; but it is equally evident, on the other hand, that the warmth of his imagination increases and prolongs his sensibility.
Stewart's man of feeling, whose "imagination increases and prolongs" the painful experience of sympathy with distress is part of the tradition in which melancholy and other such emotions are cultivated.
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 An Account of the life and writings of Thomas Reid, : STEWART, (Dugald).
Dugald Stewart (1753-1828) was "at the close of the eighteenth century...
In this work Stewart praises "Reid's Inquiry as a product of the genuine spirit of inductive study, the first systematic attempt to study human faculties according to the plan of investigation that Bacon had outlined in the Novum Organum and that Newton had followed with success in physics" (Flynn).
The publication of Stewart's Account sparked a controversy with the philosopher-jurist Francis Jeffrey who contended, in an anonymous piece in the Edinburgh Review (of which Jeffrey was a founder), that all three philosophers deluded themselves somewhat in their analogies.
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 Catrine Farm - Dugald Stewart's Hoose - In More Modern Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The gameshall is the large green shed directly behind Dugald Stewart's old house.
On the right, because of the historical importance of the house, it had to be preserved as part of any new development.
The housing development on the present day site, at the top of the page, is also called Stewart Place, named after Dugald Stewart.
www.e-ayrshire.co.uk /local/sornweb/dugald_stewarts.htm   (350 words)

  
 Edinburgh Photo Library - Stewart Dugald Memorial
Dugald Stewart (1753-1828) was a son of the Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh University.
Dugald Stewart went on to become the university's Profesor of Moral Philosophy.
His well written books on philosophy made him one of the leaders in the field and it is this which gave him such fame as he has.
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 DUGALD STEWART (1753-1... - Online Information article about DUGALD STEWART (1753-1...
Dugald Stewart waseducated in Edinburgh at the high school and the university, where he read mathematics and moral See also:
Stewart's enlightened political teaching was sufficient, in the times of reaction succeeding the See also:
French Revolution, to draw upon him the undeserved suspicion of disaffection to the constitution.
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 Dugald Stewart Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
That influence did not arise from innovative qualities in Stewart's work, for at few points did he lay claim to any substantial originality; his philosophy merely modified and extended that of Thomas Reid, whom Stewart succeeded as the leading figure in the Scottish school of commonsense philosophy.
Stewart's importance lies rather in his role as a teacher, interpreter, and popularizer of the commonsense philosophy.
Stewart's seminal place in American university curriculums enabled him to reach some of the best young minds in the generations following the Revolutionary War.
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 Dugald Stewart, Theism and the Philosophy of Science
Boston MA Although he intended to protect an important role for theology, Dugald Stewart actually showed John Stuart Mill and others the way to make theism irrelevant to the scientific enterprise.
In his Elements of the Philosophy of the Mind of 1792, Stewart formulated a purely instrumental philosophy of science for theistic reasons.
Stewart's view of science was widely influential in English-speaking countries and France.
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 DUGALD STEWART BIOGRAPHY - LIFE - HISTORY - BOOKS - FACTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A short biography of DUGALD STEWART, including life and history; from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin
This summary of interesting facts about DUGALD STEWART is taken from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin.
Shows when DUGALD STEWART was born and when died.
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 Catrine Farm - Dugald Stewart's Hoose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the summer of 1786 the poet was contemplating emigration to work as an overseer on a sugar plantation in Jamaica.
He was diverted from this potentially disastrous course (mortality from yellow fever was high that year) by several men, principal among whom was Dugald Stewart, professor of philosophy at Edinburgh University, whose summer residence this was.
Right: Stewart's monument may be seen to this day on the Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
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 Amazon.com: "Dugald Stewart": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dugald Stewart's father, Professor Matthew Stewart of Edinburgh, was a class-fellow of Smith's at Glasgow ; and Dugald Stewart has heard his...
There are valuable notices of it, it is true, in Dugald Stewart's Historical Disserta- tion, and in his Eloges of Reid and Adam Smith ;...
Consequently, it was to appear by 1800 to be (in Dugald Stewart's interpretation) of the greatest concern to a Scotland that had then reached the stage of take-off.
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 thePeerage.com - Dugald Stewart and others
He was the son of Robert Stewart and Anne Campbell.
     Dugald Stewart was created 1st Baron Appin [Scotland] on 6 June 1743, by the titular King James III.
He married, secondly, Anne Stewart, daughter of James Stewart, in 1770.
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 1903900344 : 9781903900345:Dugald Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dugald Stewart : The Pride and Ornament of Scotland
This book tells the personal story of Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), whose circular memorial monument on Calton Hill is one of Edinburgh's best known landmarks.
He was a gifted teacher whose character and eloquence influenced students who were to become famous in many walks of life.
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 Quote Details: Dugald Stewart: The faculty of imagination... - The Quotations Page
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The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement.
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 Amazon.ca: Dugald Stewart: The Pride and Ornament of Scotland: Books: Gordon MacIntyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Amazon.ca: Dugald Stewart: The Pride and Ornament of Scotland: Books: Gordon MacIntyre
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Dugald Stewart: The Pride and Ornament of Scotland (Hardcover)
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Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith LL.D. by Dugald Stewart 1793 from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Smith's Birth till the Publication of the Theory of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith, author of the Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, was the son of Adam Smith, comptroller of the customs at Kirkaldy,(1*) and of Margaret Douglas, daughter of Mr Douglas of Strathenry.
Something of the same kind might be remarked, when he attemp
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 Political Economy as Moral Philosophy: Dugald Stewart of Edinburgh
Dugald Stewart was a professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh who lectured on political economy between 1798 and 1808.
These influential lectures tried to turn political economy away from a study of wealth towards wider social concern.
While supportive of f ree trade, Stewart was also highly critical of Adam Smith's analysis of the measure of value, of the division of labor, and of Smith's rep resentation of the Physiocrats.
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