Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… of the rich mixture of historical, theological, legal and economic writing produced in eighteenth-century Scotland. The issue of sociability was far more than a technical debate in moral philosophy, or a binary controversy about the primacy … and positions. The divide between Francis Hutcheson and David Hume reveals the depth of possible disagreement on this issue between otherwise friendly interlocutors, with Hume politely but firmly rejecting Hutcheson’s emphasis on mankind’s …
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