The Scottish Enlightment

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This paper examines how there was a great intellectual revolution in Scotland during the eighteenth century and three of its leading personalities were Francis Hutcheson, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith. It looks at how they all had their own and individual contributions to the progress of human thought and how their approaches to human development were sympathetic to the underdeveloped people.

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Francis Hutcheson
Adam Ferguson and His Contributions
The Influence of Adam Ferguson and Francis Hutcheson on Teachings and Theory of Adam Smith
Conclusion

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"The first person in this group of new generation of thinkers was Francis Hutcheson and he lived during the period 1694 to 1746. He was a profuse author, but it is his earlier writings that are the most reputed. Among these are "An enquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue" which was published in London in 1725, "Reflections upon Laughter and Remarks upon the Fable of the Bees" published in the Dublin Journal in 1725-6 and "Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions with Illustrations on the Moral Sense" published in London in 1728. The biggest of his books, called "A system of Moral Philosophy" was published only after his death in Glasgow in 1755. There has been no edition published of that book with a complete critical review. He was a student at Glasgow University during the period 1711 to 1717."

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