Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet ful
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This is a reassessment of the moral and theological foundations of modern Europe. It challenges a number of deeply roote
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Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social his
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Most academic philosophers and intellectual historians are familiar with the major historical figures and intellectual m
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Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial,
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David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, John Millar, James Dunbar and Gilbert Stuart were
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In the Enlightenment it was often argued that moral conduct, rather than adherence to theological doctrine, was the true
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