Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… Castle’, Wellcome Collection, 17366i. Image J. Russell, ‘Map of Scotland’, Wellcome Library, 576763i, 1804. Résumé The Scottish Enlightenment is an epoch-making intellectual current within the European history of sociability. First, this is … 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 … 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 …
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