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Scottish Enlightenment
Main Figures of the Scottish Enlightenment
Main Figures of the Scottish Enlightenment
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scottish enlightenment
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