Hutcheson, Hume, and the Scottish Enlightenment: Undesigned Order Before It Had a Name

Podcast: Consequential Actions Podcast · Jeff Kellick

Opublikowano: 2026-09-05

Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 12 The Country That Made David Hume Refused to Hire Him In the spring of 1745 a man of thirty-four sat down in Edinburgh to defend himself anonymously against charges of atheism and skepticism, because a chair had come open at the university in his own city and he wanted it. It did not work. The clergy organized, the town council gave the post to William Cleghorn, and six years later Glasgow refused him too. David Hume never held a teaching post in his life — and the...