Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… and cultural life of the Scottish Enlightenment. While the pursuits of the ‘ Learned ’ required ‘ Leisure and Solitude ’ and ‘ long Preparation and severe Labour, ’ Hume wrote, the subjects that exercised the ‘ conversible World ’ … in dialogue, mutual exchange, and – in short – society: Such subjects of thought require not sufficient Employment in Solitude, but require the Company and Conversation of our Fellow-Creatures, to render them a proper Exercise for the …
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