The Scottish Enlightenment

About this book

The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science philosophy history economics and many other disciplines were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries. This book written for the general reader considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment but also to the people themselves who generated these ideasmen such as David Hume and Adam Smith who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.