Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… of socialisation. 8 Hume, like many of his contemporaries, ascribed a significant place to interactions between men and women in driving this process. 9 Sociability and politeness, in this sense, were outcomes of an evolutionary moral … of sociability. Another key question for the generation writing between the 1760s and 1780s was the role played by women, marital customs and, more broadly, gender relations in fostering the refinement of sociability that many took as …
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