The Scottish Enlightenment and the Remaking of Modern History (cambridge.org)

47 points by pepys 2y ago ↗ HN

4 comments

[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 17.7 ms ] thread

Walking past the Gordon street entrance to Glasgow Queen street on a Saturday night will make you question whether any event that could be described as an "Enlightenment" ever occured. Jokes aside I look forward to reading the doc in more detail once I am off work.

thenerdhead 2y ago ↗

Sounds like the book “How the Scots invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman

[dead] hunters_laptop 2y ago ↗

[flagged]

hackandthink 2y ago ↗

The article presents (among other things) how Hume, as a Scottish(!) Enlightenment thinker, sets himself apart from the English Whig History.

Hume's account of the transition from feudalism to modernity seems to me to be more realistic than the Whig Triumph History.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_England_(Hume_b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history