Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… partly be succeeded by historical sociology developed in the post-Enlightenment period. Concepts > Political & Moral philosophy Keywords Britishness Commerce Cosmopolitanism Enlightenment Gender Moral philosophy Manners Politeness Public sphere In his 1742 essay ‘ Of essay writing’, the Scottish philosopher David Hume … 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 of selfishness or sociability in human nature. As much excellent …
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