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April 12, 2018|Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, deodand, Francis Hutcheson, Lord Kames, Scottish Enlightenment, the Black Watch, Thomas Reid

What Was the Scottish Enlightenment?

by Graham McAleer|22 Comments

Statue of David Hume on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh

Without abolishing the individual, the Scottish Enlightenment nonetheless made solidarity basic to human existence.

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