Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… exchange in a range of private and public spheres in Scotland, as well as across Britain and in the cities and salons of continental Europe. Moreover, philosophical questions about human sociability were at the heart of the rich … and sociability were dependent on the existence of a court culture, along with a deferential nobility and the type of salon culture that had developed in France. 5 From a different perspective, figures like Andrew Fletcher had assumed that …
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