Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… & Moral philosophy Mots-clés Britishness Commerce Cosmopolitanism Enlightenment Gender Moral philosophy Manners Politeness Public sphere In his 1742 essay ‘ Of essay writing’, the Scottish philosopher David Hume gave a clue to the … of sociability. 3 One dimension of this reorientation in the 1720s and 1730s was a growing interest in the language of politeness and urban sociability that had already been mapped in works like Joseph Addison’s Spectator (1711-12) and even … Scotland was often experienced by contemporaries as a paradox. Traditional European thinking had assumed that politeness, arts, and sociability were dependent on the existence of a court culture, along with a deferential nobility …
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