Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Princeton University Press, 1994). One microcosm of this Scottish culture of sociability could be found in the city of Edinburgh, with its distinctive interactions between town and gown. It is probably a mistake to describe this … Age of the Historical Nation (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2001 [2007]), p. 29; cf. Pittock, Murray, Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). It is no less of a mistake … of Hutcheson’s tight linkage between natural sociability and mankind’s ‘ moral sense, ’ Smith derived the human capacity for moral discrimination and agency chiefly from refinements or modifications of self-love. 7 . Hume quoted …
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