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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… 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 culture, … a range of private and public spheres in Scotland, as well as across Britain and in the cities and salons of continental Europe. Moreover, philosophical questions about human sociability were at the heart of the rich mixture of historical, … the ‘arts and sciences’ in eighteenth-century Scotland was often experienced by contemporaries as a paradox. Traditional European thinking had assumed that politeness, arts, and sociability were dependent on the existence of a court culture, …
Britishness | Commerce | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Gender | Moral philosophy | Manners | Politeness | Public sphere
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… Gallery, PG 1057. Abstract David Hume was a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment and an active participant in European networks. He believed in the power of sociability, in the fundamental human connections. Sociability is key to … letters is linked to a paradox: he was both a marginal character (Scottish rather than English, British rather than European), and a central philosopher (Hume wrote in France, worked in France, belonged, for a while, to the world of … of its services in stirring the intellectual energies of its members. Hume was at the centre of Scottish as well as of European networks. Perhaps sociability is key to understanding the process which made of him both a central and a …
Clubs | Enlightenment | France | Philosophy | Republic of Letters | Salons | Scotland | Societies
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury [ Philosophy / Art and Literature / Aristocracy ]
… thought, such as politeness, toleration, liberty, and cosmopolitanism. Given the influence of the Earl's thought across Europe, any account of the decidedly British contribution to Enlightenment ‘sociability’ must remain incomplete without … Encounters in Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks’, in Sebastian Domsch and Mascha Hansen (ed.), British Sociability in the European Enlightenment: Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), pp. 203-22 (217). … thought of Sensus Communis as Shaftesbury’s seminal work; to help disseminate the Earl’s views on sociability throughout Europe, he translated the treatise and had it published in 1710. 9 David Hume praises Shaftesbury, among others, for …
Affection | Catholicism | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Manners | Politeness | Whigs | Wit
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Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… History Review (vol. 27, n° 2, 2018), p. 187-189. The role played by clubs and societies in the formation of British and European social, intellectual and political networks In the context of the Auld Alliance and of the institutional Union … to participate in social improvement they supposedly all longed for. They had contacts with other clubs and societies in Europe. Along with other associations, they thought about common actions to undertake for the innovation and promotion of … and promote new ideas. They would create efficient social, intellectual and political networks with the rest of Britain, Europe, America and the colonies in general. They would indeed correspond with each other and share their publications. …
Britishness | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland
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Salons [ Associational culture ]
Enlightenment | France | Gaming | Networks | Patronage
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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… as priests. Those who came back to their native land shared what they learnt in what was then considered the best European civilised and learned societies. The clans of the Lowlands, or those living in large towns of the North such as …
Clans | Clubs | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland | Tradition
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