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The Scottish Enlightenment's Secret Radical Network
While the world celebrated the polished reason of Adam Smith and David Hume, a quieter, more dangerous intellectual current was flowing through Edinburgh’s coffee houses. This episode uncovers the Select Society and its radical offshoot, the Poker Club, where common sense philosophy met social revolution. We explore how figures like Lord Kames, Henry Home, and Elizabeth Hamilton challenged not just economic theory, but the very structure of class, gender, and morality in eighteenth-century Scotland. Against the backdrop of the Presbyterian Kirk’s strictures, these thinkers argued for empathy…
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