Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… moral sentiments from the social – and more thoroughly secular – dynamics of sympathy. As the clergyman and professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres Hugh Blair remarked in one of his sermons, mankind’s ‘social disposition’ could easily be …
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