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The Scottish Enlightenment's Secret Network
While the names Hume, Smith, and Reid dominate the history books, their revolutionary ideas were not born in isolation but forged within a tight-knit community of Edinburgh’s intellectual elite. This episode explores the Select Society and its rival, the Poker Club, revealing how dinner-table debates on moral philosophy and political economy quietly reshaped the modern world. We follow the correspondence between these thinkers, including Elizabeth Hamilton and Lord Kames, as they navigated the tensions between tradition and radical new ways of understanding human nature. Discover how a group…
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