Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… excellent recent work has demonstrated, sociability for the Scots impinged on discussions of everything from race and language to religion and empire – and much else besides. 1 . David Hume, ‘Of Essay Writing’ in Essays Moral, Political, … and practices of sociability. 3 One dimension of this reorientation in the 1720s and 1730s was a growing interest in the language of politeness and urban sociability that had already been mapped in works like Joseph Addison ’s Spectator …
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