Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… which would at least 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 … race and language to religion and empire – and much else besides. 1 . David Hume, ‘Of Essay Writing’ in Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. Eugene Millar (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1994), pp. 1-2. 2 . Hume to Hugh Blair and … was probably shaped by many accumulated conversations with Glasgow merchants in the more commercially-oriented Political Economy Club. Beyond Glasgow, the towns of Aberdeen and St Andrews were also centres of Enlightenment in Scotland, and …
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