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Scottish Philosophers French
philosopher and writer, Voltaire, once noted that, "We look
to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization.” Scottish
Philosophers had an extensive influence on European thought during
the 18th and 19th centuries. The 18th century was an age when
almost every aspect of mankind's existence - philosophy, economics,
art, law, architecture, medicine, engineering - was studied and
questioned. It was also a time when Scotland's cities were "hotbeds
of genius", and Scotsmen such as the philosopher David Hume,
the economist Adam Smith, the chemist James Black, and the geologist
James Hutton developed their ideas and successfully challenged
the beliefs of the past. The Scottish Enlightenment stretched
roughly from 1740 to 1790. |
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