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Egyptomania and religion in James Burnett, Lord Monboddo’s ‘History of Man’
History of European Ideas ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-24 , DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2020.1788967
R. J. W. Mills 1
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ABSTRACT The Scottish judge and ‘eccentric’ philosopher James Burnett, Lord Monboddo’s (1714–1799) significance within Enlightenment thought is usually seen as stemming from his Origin and Progress of Language (6 vols., 1773–1792). The OPL was a major contribution to the Enlightenment’s debate over the philosophy of language, and established Monboddo’s reputation as an innovative and influential, yet controversial and credulous proto-anthropologist. In the following I explore Monboddo’s Egyptomania and the role it plays in his account of the origins and development of religion within his larger ‘History of Man’. Monboddo’s idiosyncratic and untimely fusion of conjectural history, Buffon-inspired natural history, Christian theology, Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy and credulous interest in Egyptology, especially in Antient Metaphysics (6 vols., 1779–1799), make him extremely difficult to place within the Scottish Enlightenment. I want to bring Monboddo back into our conversation about the Scottish Enlightenment, shed light in the process on his highly idiosyncratic combination of enlightened and unenlightened thought and, using Monboddo’s example, emphasize some interesting if unexpected aspects of the Scottish Enlightenment’s application of the ‘science of human nature’ to the study of religion. For Monboddo, human civilization and religious knowledge owes their existence to Egyptian daemon-kings.

中文翻译:

詹姆斯·伯内特 (James Burnett) 中的埃及狂热和宗教,蒙博多勋爵的“人类历史”

摘要 苏格兰法官和“古怪”哲学家詹姆斯·伯内特 (James Burnett),蒙博多勋爵 (1714-1799) 在启蒙思想中的重要性通常被视为源于他的《语言的起源与进步》(6 卷,1773-1792 年)。OPL 对启蒙运动关于语言哲学的辩论做出了重大贡献,并确立了 Monboddo 作为创新和有影响力但有争议和轻信的原始人类学家的声誉。在下文中,我将探讨蒙博多的埃及狂热以及它在他更大的“人类历史”中对宗教起源和发展的描述中所扮演的角色。Monboddo 将推测历史、布冯启发的自然历史、基督教神学、柏拉图和亚里士多德哲学以及对埃及学,尤其是古代形而上学(6 卷,1779-1799),使他极难被归入苏格兰启蒙运动。我想把 Monboddo 带回我们关于苏格兰启蒙运动的谈话中,阐明他对开明和未开明思想的高度特殊结合的过程,并使用 Monboddo 的例子,强调苏格兰启蒙运动应用“科学”的一些有趣但出乎意料的方面人性”到宗教研究。对于 Monboddo 来说,人类文明和宗教知识的存在归功于埃及的恶魔之王。使用 Monboddo 的例子,强调苏格兰启蒙运动将“人性科学”应用于宗教研究的一些有趣但出乎意料的方面。对于 Monboddo 来说,人类文明和宗教知识的存在归功于埃及的恶魔之王。使用 Monboddo 的例子,强调苏格兰启蒙运动将“人性科学”应用于宗教研究的一些有趣但出乎意料的方面。对于 Monboddo 来说,人类文明和宗教知识的存在归功于埃及的恶魔之王。
更新日期:2020-07-24
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