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Scottish philosopher and critic of the Enlightenment?

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a. Copernicus e. Haydn

b. Diderot f. Hume

c. Galileo g. Montesquieu

d. Hugo Grotius h. Rembrandt

who was it?

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  1. B, the answer is B   The "Scottish Enlightenment" stretched roughly from 1740 to 1790.  Unlike in France, many of its protagonists were academics.  Francis Hutcheson,  Adam Smith,  Thomas Reid and John Millar were professors at the University of Glasgow.  Adam  Ferguson, Dugald  Stewart and William Robertson were at the University of Edinburgh.  The universities of Aberdeen and St. Andrews were dominated by their students.  But there were also some important figures outside the academy who influenced the course of the dialogue, including Lord Kames, Sir James Steuart, Dr. James Anderson and, above everybody else, the towering figure of David Hume.

    The three major areas of concern for Scottish philosophers were moral philosophy, history and economics.  In all three, David Hume blazed the way, with the other Scottish philosophers following him in support or in criticism.    


  2. David Hume I guess that is Diderot in Scottish.  

  3. f  HUME

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