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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Scottish Enlightenment.
See also changes related to Scottish Enlightenment, or pages that link to Scottish Enlightenment or to this page or whose text contains "Scottish Enlightenment".

Parent topics

  • Scotland [r]: A country that forms the northernmost part of the United Kingdom; population about 5,200,000. [e]
  • The Enlightenment [r]: An 18th-century movement in Western philosophy and intellectual life generally, that emphasized the power or reason and science to understand and reform the world. [e]

Subtopics

  • Poker Club [r]: One of several clubs in Edinburgh that were the focus of intellectual exchange during the Scottish Enlightenment [e]

Philosophers

  • James Beattie [r]: (1753-1803) Scottish philosopher and poet. [e]
  • Hugh Blair [r]: (1718 – 1800) Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh, and Presbyterian preacher whose sermons and writings made a major contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. [e]
  • James Burnett, Lord Monboddo [r]: (1714 - 1799) Scottish judge and philosopher, famous as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics [e]
  • Erasmus Darwin [r]: (1731-1802) Physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, and naturalist; grandfather of Charles Darwin. [e]
  • Adam Ferguson [r]: (1723-1816) philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment, sometimes called the "father of sociology." [e]
  • Henry Home, Lord Kames [r]: (1696 – 1782) Scottish philosoper and adcocate, and a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment; notably, he argued that the politics of Scotland were not based on loyalty to Kings or Queens but on property ownership. [e]
  • David Hume [r]: (1711—1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. [e]
  • Frances Hutcheson [r]: (1694-1746) Moral philosopher, prominent in the Scottish Enlightenment, known for his theory of aesthetics (that beauty is not a property of the object, but arises from an innate "aesthetic sense"). [e]
  • Adam Smith [r]: Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790), a major contributor to the modern perception of free market economics; author of Wealth of Nations (1776). [e]
  • Dugald Stewart [r]: (1753 - 1828) Scottish philosopher of the "common-sense" school who played a major role in making the "Scottish philosophy" predominant in 19th century Europe; known for his theory of taste. [e]
  • Thomas Reid [r]: Scottish philosopher (1710-1796), one of the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, best known as the founder of the "school of common sense". [e]

Other related topics

Figures who influenced or were influenced by the Scottish Enlightement

  • Robert Adam [r]: (1728-1792) Neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. [e]
  • Andrew Bell [r]: (1726-1809) Scottish engraver who co-founded the Encyclopaedia Britannica [e]

Important places in the Scottish Enlightenment