Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… purpose,’ serving effectively as a mechanism for the dissemination of licentiousness via the influence of ‘custom, fashion and example.’ Sociability in this sense required tempering by a ‘firmness in mind,’ which was reinforced by …
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