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Main Figures of the Scottish Enlightenment

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The 18th century Enlightenment was a European, even a trans-Atlantic phenomenon. Two of its main centres of intellectual activity were France and Scotland.  Explore our collection of biographies of these figures and their contemporaries.

Adam Smith

William Robertson

James Beattie

via the Online Library of Liberty

Hugh Blair

via Encyclopedia Britannica 

George Campbell

Institute for the Study of Scottish Philosophy

Thomas Carlyle

via
Encyclopedia Britannica

Gershom Carmichael

via the Online Library of Liberty

Adam Ferguson

via the Online Library of Liberty 

David Fordyce

via the Online Library of Liberty

David Hume

via the Online Library of Liberty 

David Hume

via the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics

Francis Hutcheson

via the Online Library of Liberty

Henry Home, Lord Kames

via the Online Library of Liberty

Sir James Mackintosh

via the Online Library of Liberty 

John Millar

via the Online Library of Liberty

Thomas Reid

via the Online Library of Liberty

Dugald Stewart

via the Online Library of Liberty

George Turnbull

via the Online Library of Liberty

Key figures

Wikipedia

The Scottish Enlightenment

via the Online Library of Liberty
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