Among the many philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment who
speak approvingly of Stoic philosophy are Francis Hutcheson and
Adam Smith, two men who were related, at the University of
Glasgow, as professor to appreciative student. As a step towards
establishing the extent to which the Scottish Enlightenment philosophers
were indebted to the Stoics I investigate Hutcheson and
Smith and seek to demonstrate that on at least some matters relating
to the propriety of having and expressing passion, these two
Scottish philosophers were hostile to characteristic Stoic doctrines
