Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… 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 Literary, … Others among the Scottish moderates, as Thomas Ahnert has demonstrated, insisted on the indispensability of revealed religion to the achievement of the true character of ‘moral culture,’ a stance that put them at odds with Smith’s effort … pursuing the question of how it was dramatically reshaped across societies by the influence of climate, geography, race, religion, and history. 12 A crucial question for this generation was how historical processes of societal and political …
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