Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Millar (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1994), pp. 1-2. 2 . Hume to Hugh Blair 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 Scotland has often been traced to the … 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 …
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