We are delighted to announce details of an RSE @ Dumfries & Galloway Public Talk, supported by The Holywood Trust
The talk is open to all and free to attend
'A Puzzle from Scotland's Past: Why did the Scottish Enlightenment happen?
Prof. Tom Devine, OBE FBA FRSE
The
Scottish Enlightenment is widely regarded as the nation's most
important and influential contribution to the intellectual and cultural
life of humanity. From science to philosophy, history to medicine,
economics to geology and beyond to numerous other subjects, Scottish
thinkers of the eighteenth century helped create a new understanding of
the contours of existence.
Why
this happened is a conundrum: Scotland seemed a most unlikely seedbed
for such an intellectual revolution. In the decades before the great
creative transformation, it was regarded as a desperately poor country
on the outer fringes of the great centres of European civilisation in
the grip of a Taliban-type culture of unyielding religious orthodoxy
fundamentally opposed to innovative thought.
This
lecture will try to answer this challenging question and so seek to
resolve one of Scottish history's most enduring mysteries.
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Thursday 25 April 2013, 7.00pm
Lockerbie Academy, Lockerbie
For further information and to register:
Tel: 0131 240 2780 events@royalsoced.org.uk
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