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Royal Society of Edinburgh
Overview
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. As of 2021, there are around 1,800 Fellows.
The Society covers a broader range of fields than the Royal Society of London, including literature and history. The Fellowship includes people from a wide range of disciplines: science and technology, arts, humanities, medicine, social science, business, and public service.
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The principles upon which it was founded are explained by Mr Law himself, in a discourse concerning money and trade, which he published in Scotland when he first proposed his project. The splendid but visionary ideas which are set forth in that and some other works upon the same principles, still continue to make an impression upon many people, and have, perhaps, in part, contributed to that excess of banking, which…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The law which secures the longest leases against successors of every kind, is, so far as I know, peculiar to Great Britain. It was introduced into Scotland so early as 1449, by a law of James II. Its beneficial influence, however, has been much obstructed by entails; the heirs of entail being generally restrained from letting leases for any long term of years, frequently for more than one year.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The question advanced by the Royal Society, together with the considerations leading up to it, is as follows:-- _Quum primitiva,', moralitatis idea, sive de summa lege morali principalis notio, sua quadam 'propria eaque minime logica necessitate, turn in ea disciplina appareat, cui propositum est cognitionem_ τοῡ ἠθικοῡ _explicare, turn in vita, partim in conscientiae judicio de nostris actionibus, partim in censura…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
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Philosophers who discussed Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Dugald Stewart
- Adam Ferguson
- Adam Smith
- Thomas Reid
- George Boole
- David Hume
- John Haldane (philosopher)
- Bob Hale (philosopher)
- Edward Caird
- Duncan Pritchard
- Neil MacCormick
- Timothy Sprigge
- Henry Home, Lord Kames
- Alexander Broadie
- Norman Kemp Smith
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- Lord Kelvin
- University of Glasgow
- Royal Society
- Edinburgh
- Scottish Enlightenment
- William Cullen
- Colin Maclaurin
- Neil MacCormick
- Theory of the Earth
Place in the tradition
Part of Scottish philosophy.
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