Presentación. Razón práctica en la Ilustración escocesa

Abstract

Recent scholarship on the Scottish Enlightenment has drawn our attention to the connection between moral philosophy and social sciences. As privileged witnesses of the process of modernization, the Scottish philosophers developed original approaches to moral issues, thereby raising epistemological questions too which are crucial to understand the development of social sciences. At the basis of these epistemological issues stands the reference to practical reason which gives title to this volume.