Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Millar (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1994), pp. 1-2. 2 . Hume to Hugh Blair and others, 6 April 1765. David Hume, The Letters of David Hume, ed. J. Y. T. Greig, 2 vol. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), vol. 1, pp. 495–499 (Letter … cemented as well as laboratories for the ideas later expressed in print by those identified by James Harris as ‘ men of letters. ’ 4 3 . Nicholas Phillipson, ‘The Scottish Enlightenment’, in Roy Porter and M. Teich (eds), The Enlightenment … is it not strange, I say, that, in these Circumstances, we shou’d really be the People most distinguish’d in Europe?’ (Letters, vol.I, p. 255) As Hume had already suggested, one clue to the resolution of this apparent paradox lay in the …
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