Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… this civic culture in terms of a simple shift from the old court and aristocratic society of the seventeenth century towards a bourgeois ‘public sphere’: the networks of improvement linking the university with the church, legal profession … Smith’s explanation of morality and sociability. Several of his readers, from Adam Ferguson and Thomas Reid to Dugald Stewart, complained that Smith’s account amounted to little more than a theory of good breeding or politeness, rather than … 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 mechanism for the dissemination of licentiousness via the …
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