Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… ‘largely composed of professional men rather than aristocrats’ and that ‘many of the “lords” who figure in them were law lords who worked their way up through their profession’. 6 Such societies and clubs include Rankenian Club (founded … was sometimes called the ‘ state of nature. ’ This raised a set of further questions, prompted in part by the natural law theorist Samuel Pufendorf ’s insistence that human need ( indigentia ) supplied a basis for society prior to the …
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