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The Scottish Enlightenment's Secret Network
While the Jacobite risings and the Clearances dominate popular memory, a quieter revolution was taking place in Edinburgh’s drawing rooms. This episode explores the Select Society, an intellectual salon founded in 1754 that brought together luminaries like Adam Smith, David Hume, and Thomas Reid to debate morality, economics, and human nature. We look at how these men navigated the tension between radical ideas and conservative society, forming a network that reshaped modern thought without firing a single shot. From the influence of Francis Hutcheson’s moral sense theory to the practical…
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