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The Scottish Enlightenment
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The Scottish Enlightenment
The ideas that made Scotland the intellectual powerhouse of the modern world
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About the Ebook
The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries.
This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas – men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.
Why You'll Love This Ebook
- Understand the ideas of Hume, Smith, and Reid in accessible, expert prose
- Discover why eighteenth-century Scotland changed how the world thinks
- Explore philosophy, science, and society in the age of reason
- Read another celebrated title from Birlinn Ltd - Independent Scottish Publisher
About the Author
Alexander Broadie is a Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow University – a chair once occupied by Adam Smith – and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has published many books on Scottish thought.Publication Details
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Publication Date: 01 November 2012
Print Length: 252 pages (Ebook edition)
ISBN (Ebook): 9780857904980
Format: Ebook
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