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#scottish-enlightenment
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Reid said we are built to believe what we are told. Was he right, or was Hume?
Most of what I know, I was told. For decades at a Leith surgery, patients and doctors told me things and I believed most of them; I told them things and they believed most of those. It never occurred to me to…
Started by Alistair Gow5 replies -
Reading group: Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Parts I and III
Having started with Hume, I have moved on to Adam Smith, working through the Scottish Enlightenment in local order. Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments first appeared in 1759 and he kept revising it until the sixth edition of 1790, the year he…
Started by Alistair Gow4 replies