#scottish philosophy

[virtualpoet]

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exist merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

- 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘦

[gegengestalt]

Hume and Rousseau.

Hume just wants to be friends!

[capaldi-world]

feeling this acutely right now

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

Stoicism and Scottish Philosophy

Dugald Stewart (1753-1828) was professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).  He was part

[sideburnpower]

What variety there may be of Minds or Thinking Beings Throughout this vast Universe, we cannot pretend to say.  We dwell in a little Corner of Gods Dominion, disjoined from the rest. The Globe which we inhabit is but one of six Planets which encircle our Sun.  What various Orders of Beings and with what Powers endowed, may inhabit the other five, their Secondarys, & the Comets belonging to our System; & how many other suns may be encircled with like Systems, are things altogether hid from us. Although human Ingenuity and Industry have discovered with great Accuracy the Order & Distances of the Planets & the Laws of their Motion, we have no means of corresponding with them. That they may be the habitation of animated Beings, we probably conjecture; But of the Nature or Powers of their Inhabitants we cannot even form a conjecture.  It may therefore be asked, What are the thinking Beings of which we may attain any Knowledge? I answer Our own Minds.

Thomas Reid, “Introductory Lecture,” Lecture and Papers on Practical Ethics, 1770-71.