Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… T.H. Shepherd, ‘Busy street-life in front of Edinburgh University, Scotland’, Welcome Library, 17093i, 1829. Image ‘The Royal Institution, Edinburgh, with a view of the Castle’, Wellcome Collection, 17366i. Image J. Russell, ‘Map of … that exercised the ‘ conversible World ’ could only be worked out in dialogue, mutual exchange, and – in short – society: Such subjects of thought require not sufficient Employment in Solitude, but require the Company and Conversation … Club (its openness and diversity was underlined by John Playfair); and the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh (the later Royal Society of Edinburgh). The diverse mixture and the equal membership of these societies can partly be explained by …
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