Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… of the true character of ‘moral culture,’ a stance that put them at odds with Smith’s effort to derive the moral sentiments from the social – and more thoroughly secular – dynamics of sympathy. As the clergyman and professor of … philosophy at Glasgow, Thomas Reid, criticised in particular the Part III of the first edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and became more influential in Scottish moral philosophy and its expansion toward North America, replacing the … nature and the history of society that appeared in the three decades after the publication of Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments were still deeply preoccupied with the question of sociability. Adam Ferguson’s Essay on the History of Civil …
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