Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… was a growing interest in the language of politeness and urban sociability that had already been mapped in works like Joseph Addison ’s Spectator (1711-12) and even Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees (1714; 2nd ed ., 1723) – texts that many …
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