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Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1 The Extension of Mechanical and Mathematical Philosophies
to the Study of Man and Society 15
Descartes and the Geometrical Spirit 15 The Mechanical
Philosophy 21 Mechanical Beasts and Bodies 32
Preview of Concerns about the Cultural Impact of the
Mechanical Philosophy 37 The Spirit of Geometry
Applied to Politics: The Works of Thomas Hobbes 41 The
Mechanical Philosophy Applied to Man and State 49
2 Empiricist Political Science in the Seventeenth
Century 61
The Political Anatomy of James Harrington 61 The
Political Arithmetic of William Petty 72
3 The Religious Implications of Newtonian Science 87
The Natural Theology Tradition 89 The Special Role of
Natural Theology within Anglicanism 90 The Special
Character of Newtonian Science 93 Newtonian Natural
Theology 111 Newton and Scriptural Prophecy 120
Eighteenth-Century Newtonianism and the Drift toward
Materialism and Irreligion 128 Summary 137
VII
viii Contents
4 Liberalisms and Socialisms: The Ideological Implications
of Enlightenment Social Science
I: The Tradition of Political Economy
The Psychological, Sociological, and Economic Traditions
Defined 142 The Context of Early Political Economy and
the Emergence of Homo Economicus 145 Political
Economy and Social Statistics: The Relationship between
Interest and Information 153 The First Great Economic
Systematizers: Cantillon and the Physiocrats 166
5 The Ideological Implications of Enlightenment Social Science
II: The Sociological Tradition
Montesquieu and the Comparative Study of Social Institu-
tions 191 Was The Spirit of the Laws Scientific? 196
The Conservative Thrust of the Spirit of the Laws 198
Laws and the Modes of Subsistence 200 Montesquieu and
the Law of Unintended Consequences 202 Montesquieu
on the Interrelationships among Institutions in a Society 204
Adam Ferguson s History of Civil Society 205 Ferguson on
the Difference between Natural and Moral Laws 208
Ferguson on the Positive Side of Conflict 211 Ferguson
on the Limitations of Political Economy 212 Adam
Smith s Wealth of Nations and the Sociological Tradition 218
Smith s Moral Philosophy Lectures: Empirical Ethics 221
Smith s Invisible Hand Re-examined 226 Some Liberal
Policy Implications of Smith s Economic Assumptions 229
Summary of Chapters 4 and 5 231
6 The Ideological Implications of Enlightenment Social Science
III: Sensationalist Psychology and a New Focus on Equality,
Distributive Justice, and Education
David Hartley and Newton s Methods Applied to Psychol-
ogy 238 Hartley and the British Doctrine of Natural
Accommodation 249 Etienne Condillac and French Asso-
ciationist Doctrines 252 Claude Adrien Helvetius and
the Socialist Implications of Associationist Psychology 253
Liberal Ideology, Educational Reform, and Associationist
Psychology 271 Summary 279
7 Science and Aesthetics: The Beautiful to the Sublime,
ca. 1600-ca. 1800
The Aristotelian Foundations of Neoclassical Aesthetic
Theory 288 Hobbesian Psychology and the Shaping of
140
191
236
284
Contents
IX
English Literary Criticism 293 The Sensationalist
Aesthetics of Edmund Burke 301
8 Science, Technology, and the Industrial Revolution:
The Conflation of Science and Technics
What Makes a Technology Scientific ? 319 Scientific
Attitudes and the Diffusion of Technology: The Agricultural
Revolution in Eighteenth-Century England 324 Scientific
Activities and Technological Innovation: Smeaton s Improve-
ment of Water Wheels and Wedgwood s Innovations in Pottery
Technology 327 Scientific Habits of Mind and the
Organization of Work: Wedgwood s Etruria Pottery 338
The Products of Science and Technological Innovation: The
Case of Chlorine Bleaching 340 Summary 343
9 Romantic Reactions to Scientized Politics and Production
Joseph de Maistre and the Religious Theme of Continental
Conservatism 347 Edmund Burke and the Wisdom of Our
Ancestors 354 William Blake: Early Romantic Poetry on
the French and Industrial Revolutions 359 William
Wordsworth: Passionate Poetry vs. Analytic Science 363
Summary 368
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
316
345
371
409
Index
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