Scottish philosophy is a philosophical tradition created by philosophers belonging to Scottish universities.
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11 Facts About Scottish philosophy
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Early Scottish philosophy served theology, that is the study of god and religion.
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The idea of moral Scottish philosophy was can be traced to Francis Hutcheson's work, A System of Moral Philosophy, first published in Glasgow in 1755.
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Hutcheson's moral Scottish philosophy emerged as a reaction to Hobbes' psychological egoism and Clarke and Wollaston's rationalism.
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Features of Hutcheson's moral Scottish philosophy appear in his aesthetic theory, particularly his theory of our moral sense of beauty and the pleasure we take in it, which is not simply incidental to perceiving beauty.
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Influence of Immanuel Kant and German idealism on the philosophical tradition of the Scottish philosophy Enlightenment changed the philosophical agenda in the 19th century.
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Since the aim of philosophy was to reconcile the seemingly incompatible elements in the human experience, Scottish Idealists welcomed the growth of the natural sciences, especially biology as a source of new material for continual evolutionary development of human understanding.
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Scottish philosophy began to acquire a self-conscious identity, which according to James McCosh, now consists of two opposing strands: the first is the materialism of Bain, and second the Hegelianism of Caird.
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From McCosh's perspective, the increasing popularity of Scottish philosophy philosophical school was a step in a different direction from the original methods and moral and religious standpoints.
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Scottish philosophy had a strong influence on the development of Australian philosophy, especially through the persons of the first professors of philosophy at Sydney University and Melbourne University, Sir Francis Anderson and Henry Laurie, and John Anderson, Challis Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University from 1927 to 1958.
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Traditionally, the continuation of Scottish philosophy relied on the teachers being succeeded by their students.
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