Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson
Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond

"Carey’s book is bursting with interesting ideas and is an excellent addition to intellectual history and to the literature on all three of its major figures."
Aaron Garrett, Boston University, Eighteenth-Century Scotland

"Carey's use of correspondence and unpublished manuscripts from the early modern periods adds to the value of his study, which as a whole contains a wealth of information and ideas. All this is to Carey's great credit."
Thomas Mautner, Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries

"Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson is...an important book, not least for anyone interested in the origins of the Scottish Enlightenment. It is well-written, and provides an especially clear exposition of the arguments found in the key texts. It sheds new light on Hutcheson’s English and Irish influences. It also suggests that the problem of diversity, once posed, could not readily be – in fact, still has not been – convincingly resolved. As a result, we still do not know what human nature is, but remain beguiled by the possibility that it might exist. In an increasingly multicultural world, the issues with which the British philosophers of the early Enlightenment wrestled continue to perplex."
The Scottish Historical Review

"[An] indispensable work of intellectual history...elegant and persuasive...a masterful book."
Adam Potkay, The Scriblerian