Brin: The Scottish Enlightenment

2004-10-23 Thread Doug Pensinger
This New Yorker article by David Denby has bearing on some of the earlier discussions on philosophy and the enlightenment. (David)Hume, perhaps the most thoroughgoing skeptic in the history of philosophy, believed that religion is a portrait not of how the cosmos works but of how the human

Re: Brin: The Scottish Enlightenment

2004-10-23 Thread David Brin
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This New Yorker article by David Denby has bearing on some of the earlier discussions on philosophy and the enlightenment. Very interesting, Doug. I'm not without my own inconsistencies in these matters. For example, while it's blatantly obvious