Two Scholars: Areskine, Aikenhead, and Their Books

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004315389_004

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The rise of secularism in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Scotland can be considered by comparing the experiences of two young Scottish arts scholars who met very different fates. Charles Areskine became a university teacher. Thomas Aikenhead, a reader and sharer of âatheisticalâ books, was executed for blasphemy. When Areskine launched his teaching career as a regent in early eighteenth-century Edinburgh, the issues surrounding Aikenheadâs trial and execution were still very much alive. Aikenhead read, or supposedly had read, Descartes, Hobbes, and Locke, authors suspected of promoting atheism: their names were cited at Aikenheadâs trial as the inspiration for his blasphemous ideas. The books that young Scottish university scholars read mattered and this chapter considers the secular and scientific ideas they took from them. Areskine taught a shifting and changing curriculum and went on to become the first professor of the law of nature and nations at Edinburgh in 1707. His acceptance and promotion of Newtonianism, with its insistence on the existence of a supreme being, ensured that his intellectual positions were considered sound and he was thus able to engage with ideas and share them without fear of prosecution.

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Charles Areskineâs Library

Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment

Reihe:Â Library of the Written Word, Band: 48Â undÂ Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Band: 48

ISBN:: 9789004315389

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 01 Jan 2016

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