Abstract
The term “Scottish Enlightenment” was first coined in 1900.2 However, the field of inquiry was identified and formulated a century earlier in a series of memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies devoted to the group of 1 iterati who had personified the Scottish “Golden Age” and had given Edinburgh its reputation as the “Athens of the North.” The autobiography of Alexander Carlyle, the memoirs of Henry Cockburn and John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, the biographies of James Beattie and Lord Kames, written at the beginning of the nineteenth century, together with The Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791 by the young Scot James Boswell—to cite just well-known examples— offer a group portrait of the age. In this context, Dugald Stewart played a central role in shaping the canon of historical reference, to the extent that he has been credited with the “invention” of the Scottish Enlightenment.3
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Dugald Stewart, Dissertation: Exhibiting the Progress of Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Philosophy, since the Revival of Letters in Europe (I part 1815, II part 1821), in Collected Works, ed. William Hamilton, 11 vols. (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clarck, 1854), I: 69–70 (emphasis in the original). This sentence introduces Stewart’s analysis of the “Scottish school.”
The first person to use this expression was probably William Robert Scott, Francis Hutcheson: His Life, Teaching and Position in the History of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 1900), 265;
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