Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… in front of Edinburgh University, Scotland’, Welcome Library, 17093i, 1829. Image ‘The Royal Institution, Edinburgh, with a view of the Castle’, Wellcome Collection, 17366i. Image J. Russell, ‘Map of Scotland’, Wellcome Library, 576763i, 1804. Abstract The Scottish Enlightenment is an epoch-making intellectual current within the European history of sociability. First, this is an exceptional blending of the theory and practice of sociable … evaluation not just of the pleasures but also of the intellectual value of sociability and polite conversation, along with his abiding admiration for those of a ‘sociable Disposition.’ Its mirror-image was Hume’s correspondingly negative …
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