Serie CCPP/FOR/1 - Lecture notes and reading lists

11 boxes, paper

Notes made by Forbes in preparation for lectures he gave. Subjects include the Scottish Enlightenment; Adam Smith; Auguste Comte; Immanuel Kant; Montesquieu; David Hume; Natural Law; the History of Ideas; the Proper Society; History of 18th century thought, 18th century political thought; Georg Hegel and Edmund Burke; J. S. Mill; Theories of the Modern State - Idealists (Rousseau, Kant, Busanquet); Theories of the Modern State - Utilitarians (Rentham, J. S. Mill, Carlyle, Buckle); Theories of the Modern State - Marxism; Philosophy and Painting for Trinity Hall Dillitante Society 8th November 1948; History and Historicism, 1949; The historical novel, 1951; The futility of history; Man on his past; Reflections on the history of ideas; Human thoughts: on being a moderate; The European (or cosmopolitan) dimension on Humes Science of politics.

Also includes reading lists created by Forbes for his students and articles taken from newspapers and magazines Forbes used to compile reading lists.