Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… – dynamics of sympathy. As the clergyman and professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres Hugh Blair remarked in one of his sermons, mankind’s ‘social disposition’ could easily be ‘warped from its original purpose,’ serving effectively as a … socially recognised by real others. 11 . Hugh Blair, Sermon XIX, ‘On Following the Multitude to Do Evil’, in Hugh Blair, Sermons, 4 vols. (London, 1794), pp. 400-421. See Thomas Ahnert, The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, …
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