Stoicism and Scottish Philosophy
How Stoic Philosophy was preserved by the Scottish Enlightenment
Dugald Stewart (1753-1828) was professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). He was part of the movement in academic philosophy known as Scottish Common Sense Realism. Stewart was also good friends with Scotland's national bard, the poet Robert Burns.
Much of intellectual life in eighteenth-century Scot…
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