“not only is there no invocation of the free market… Smith does not believe in a capitalist marketplace wholly free from restriction or regulation”

—Evan Gottlieb on the origins & legacy of Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”
#C18 #economics #ScottishEnlightenment
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Moral Emotions in the Scottish Enlightenment This collection of articles from the Journal of Scottish Philosophy includes chronological discussions on influential thinkers like Pufendorf, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid, exploring their ideas on moral emotions and their impact on Scottish Enlightenment thought.

Explore this free-to-read virtual issue from the #JournalOfScottishPhilosophy 

Includes discussions on influential thinkers like Pufendorf, Mandeville and Hutcheson, exploring their ideas on moral emotions and their impact on #ScottishEnlightenment thought.

Check it out:

Call for Papers: Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries. University College Dublin, 23-24 June 2026. Submission deadline: February 27, 2026. For more information, see the full CFP at philevents.org/event/show/1....
#PhilosophyConference #HumePhilosophy #ScottishEnlightenment #Epistemology #UCD

Amazon.co.uk : Lectures in Scottish History

Book Week Scotland would be a good time to read some Scottish history. You'll find the link to my pieces here. #Jacobites #JamesIV #FirstWorldWar #ScottishEnlightenment @htenuk.bsky.social #BookWeekScotland

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Bright Club Glasgow - The Stand Comedy Club Bright Club is the thinking person variety night. Bright Club’s unique blend of comedy, academia and music has won support from New Scientist, The Guardian, ...

interested in learning about #wasps, #Scottishenlightenment and #pedagogy and being mildly amused - come to Bright club in Glasgow on Monday 10th November www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

#ScottishEnlightenment
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Book launched!
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#C18th #race #colonization #ScottishEnlightenment

Royal High School, Calton Hill Bicentenary - The Old Edinburgh Club The Royal High School buildings on Calton Hill have their bicentenary in July 2025. This post provides the history.

The laying of the foundation stone of the Royal High School, Edinburgh, on 28th July 1825. A great blog by Steven Robb for the OEC. #royalhighschool #caltonhill #thomashamiltonarchitect #lordprovost #lordglenorchy #oldedinburghhistory #scottishenlightenment #greekrevivalbuildings

"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."

✒ Scottish economist and moral philosopher #AdamSmith was #BOTD (baptized) 5 June 1723 (O.S.) #Economics #Philosophy #ScottishEnlightenment

Book cover. Painting of a Scotsman in highland dress, partly obscured by the large book title. The man's head is also not shown.

How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Scotland #ScottishHistory #History #ScottishEnlightenment #NonFiction

“not only is there no invocation of the free market […] Smith does not believe in a capitalist marketplace wholly free from restriction or regulation”

—Evan Gottlieb on the origins & legacy of Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”
#18thCentury #ScottishEnlightenment
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/invi...

Bruce' work comes out of our project: “The Borders of Humanity: Linnaean Natural Historians and the Colonial Legacies of the Enlightenment” #histsci #skystorian #globalhist #scottishenlightenment #novascotia

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An interesting blog post from one of our Arts Library Associates, here at the University of Glasgow and coordinated by my colleague. The Associate's project focussed on restoring a book from the collection of Adam Smith (of the institution's notable alumni). 😀 Fascinating reading, mainly […]