Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… and urban sociability that had already been mapped in works like Joseph Addison’s Spectator (1711-12) and even Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees (1714; 2nd ed ., 1723) – texts that many educated Scots read with avid interest. Another … philosophical inquiry by the controversial arguments of earlier writers, like Thomas Hobbes or, more recently, Bernard Mandeville, that humans were not naturally vested with any sociable propensities or affections in what was sometimes … humans acquired the moral and psychological resources required to live sociably. This was a theme already treated by Mandeville as well as earlier French theorists such as Pierre Nicole or Saint-Evremond, and Hume and Smith were both …
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