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Burns & the Scottish Enlightenment in America
4 Aug, Robert Burns Ellisland Farm
Tickets by donation

Ian Houston will examine how the ideas that shaped Burns's world – liberty, equality, democracy, & human dignity – also influenced the emerging American republic

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-the-scottish-enlightenment-in-america-tickets-1990854549550

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poetry #Enlightenment #ScottishEnlightenment #18thcentury #America250

Burns & the Scottish Enlightenment in America
4 Aug, Robert Burns Ellisland Farm
Tickets by donation

Ian Houston will examine how the ideas that shaped Burns's world – liberty, equality, democracy, & human dignity – also influenced the emerging American republic

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-the-scottish-enlightenment-in-america-tickets-1990854549550

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poetry #Enlightenment #ScottishEnlightenment #18thcentury #America250

Call for Papers: Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries. University College Dublin, 23-24 June 2026. Submission deadline: February 27, 2026. For more information, see the full CFP at philevents.org/event/show/1.... #PhilosophyConference #HumePhilosophy #ScottishEnlightenment #Epistemology #UCD

Call for Papers: Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries. University College Dublin, 23-24 June 2026. Submission deadline: February 27, 2026. For more information, see the full CFP at philevents.org/event/show/1.... #PhilosophyConference #HumePhilosophy #ScottishEnlightenment #Epistemology #UCD

TFG went from being #Cicero to #Catiline over the span of only 4 years.

Even the founders educated by the #ScottishEnlightenment and protagonists of the #American Revolution would been incredulous he ate the whole wheel of cheese, they’d have been amazed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/11/03/donald-trump-the-cicero-of-2016/

#history @histodons

TFG went from being #Cicero to #Catiline over the span of only 4 years.

Even the founders educated by the #ScottishEnlightenment and protagonists of the #American Revolution would been incredulous he ate the whole wheel of cheese, they’d have been amazed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/11/03/donald-trump-the-cicero-of-2016/

#history @histodons

@Colinsay @aral

The #ScottishEnlightenment has a rich legacy across global institutions and deserve to reap the benefit, at long last 🖖🏼

"To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus"

@Colinsay @aral

The #ScottishEnlightenment has a rich legacy across global institutions and deserve to reap the benefit, at long last 🖖🏼

"To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus"

It's #FrancisHutchesonDay

Francis Hutcheson, teacher in Dublin and lecturer in Glasgow University, "Father of the #ScottishEnlightenment " was born #OTD 1694 in Saintfield, Co. Down and died #OTD 1746 in Dublin.

A post on the Dublin Hutcheson knew.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/08/08/footsteps-of-hutcheson/

#FrancisHutcheson #IrishPhilosophyOTD

It's #FrancisHutchesonDay

Francis Hutcheson, teacher in Dublin and lecturer in Glasgow University, "Father of the #ScottishEnlightenment " was born #OTD 1694 in Saintfield, Co. Down and died #OTD 1746 in Dublin.

A post on the Dublin Hutcheson knew.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/08/08/footsteps-of-hutcheson/

#FrancisHutcheson #IrishPhilosophyOTD

Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow lecture

Robert Burns & 18th-Century Thought

Wed 18 Jan, University of Glasgow

Prof Gerard Carruthers examines the debt owed to the #ScottishEnlightenment by Scotland’s national poet. Arguably, this intellectual hinterland in Burns remains under-appreciated amid a predominant framing of Burns as a ‘folk’ artist.

@litstudies
#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #18thCentury #philosophy #Enlightenment

https://www.royalphil.org/event/professor-gerry-carruthersrobert-burns-and-18th-century-thought/?event_date=2023-01-18

Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow lecture

Robert Burns & 18th-Century Thought

Wed 18 Jan, University of Glasgow

Prof Gerard Carruthers examines the debt owed to the #ScottishEnlightenment by Scotland’s national poet. Arguably, this intellectual hinterland in Burns remains under-appreciated amid a predominant framing of Burns as a ‘folk’ artist.

@litstudies
#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #18thCentury #philosophy #Enlightenment

https://www.royalphil.org/event/professor-gerry-carruthersrobert-burns-and-18th-century-thought/?event_date=2023-01-18

I learned of the term #commonplace book reading Tom Ricks’ immensely educational book #FirstPrinciples.

As part of my #introduction, I’d like to continuing with my messy personal experimental process of #digital #pamphleteering, gathering shared data, information, knowledge, and wisdom to build a sense of #community across time and space. 🇺🇸#fediverse #federated #networks #republicanism #scottishenlightenment #history