Ethics and Political Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment

Course content

Conceptions and development of ethical and political philosophy of the Scottish philosophers of the eighteenth century; the conceptions of egoism and sympathy; social change and development of critical thinking; the conception of the human being as the source of truth and value; human nature and its ethical and political dimensions; the formation of the modern subject; the relations of the Scottish Enlightenment with the French and the German.