On David Hume's Humanization of 'The Enlightenment'
Those who see “the Enlightenment” as the stringent and dry dictatorship of reason should read David Hume (1711-1776). The Scottish philosopher, alongside his friend Adam Smith, is the largest fruit of the “Scottish Enlightenment,” the roots of which go back to the sixteenth century. That is when, at the hands of the Calvinist reformer John Knox, public and free education came to occupy a central position in spreading the new emergent religious teachings, thereby giving rise to several generations of elites and ideas.
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