Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Castle’, Wellcome Collection, 17366i. Image J. Russell, ‘Map of Scotland’, Wellcome Library, 576763i, 1804. Abstract The Scottish Enlightenment is an epoch-making intellectual current within the European history of sociability. First, this is an … rendered possible by refined urban settings in middle-scale cities, distinct from both London and Paris. Secondly, the Scottish Enlightenment unprecedentedly contributed to theorising sociability not only through systematic analysis of …
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