What was David Hume saying? What’s the idea that’s driving it? Robert Galvin: The biggest thing that came out of the Scottish Enlightenment as it impacted our country was an understanding of ...

Every history nerd dreams of finding an old message in a bottle, whether the bottle is floating in the ocean or concealed in ...

The ideas of this Scottish Enlightenment are exported to the colonies and fan the flames of revolution against the evils and cruelties of Empire.

During a tour of the historic King’s Theater in Edinburgh, photographer Mike Hume was perched atop scaffolding some 40 feet ...

Series exploring the life and work of Scottish philosophers Adam Smith and David Hume. Smith was known as the 'father of modern economics' and Hume was considered an architect of the Enlightenment ...

But for the upcoming novel, she cites the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume. "With 'Sunrise on the Reaping,' I was inspired by David Hume's idea of implicit submission and, in his ...

Hume, who was himself an internationally eminent Enlightenment philosopher and ... to hang in Hume's own home (also NGS [Scottish National Portrait Gallery]). Sadly, the friendship which helped ...