Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… and others, 6 April 1765. David Hume, The Letters of David Hume, ed. J. Y. T. Greig, 2 vol. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), vol. 1, pp. 495–499 (Letter 272). The culture of sociability that was distinctive to eighteenth-century … T hey were also locations in which intellectual friendships were cemented as well as laboratories for the ideas later expressed in print by those identified by James Harris as ‘ men of letters. ’ 4 3 . Nicholas Phillipson, ‘The Scottish … Enlightenment’, in Roy Porter and M. Teich (eds), The Enlightenment in National Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981). 4 . James A. Harris, Hume: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). It is …
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