Scotland and Ireland: Religion and Enlightenment

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Scotland and Ireland: Religion and Enlightenment - Prof. Alexander Broadie Scotland and Ireland: Religion and Enlightenment Master Class Religions Department, UCC University College Cork

Professor Emeritus Alexander Broadie FRSE, Logic and Rhetoric, University of Glasgow presented on ‘Morality and Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment’ at the opening of the Master Class on 'Scotland and Ireland: Religion and the Enlightenment'. The Master Class is Chaired by Dr. Amanullah De Sondy, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam.

Professor Broadie argued that the analysis of our moral beliefs and moral institutions was conducted at the level of genius by Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, most especially by Francis Hutcheson, David Hume and Adam Smith. Broadie discussed their analyses, taking into account the closely related question of the way the religious views of these philosophers impacted on their analyses.

The Study of Religions Master Class on Scotland and Ireland: Religion and the Enlightenment begins TODAY. (Thursday 6th and Friday 7th April at the Blackstone Launchpad, Boole Library, University College Cork, Ireland.

Keynote speakers:
Professor Emeritus Alexander Broadie FRSE, Logic and Rhetoric, University of Glasgow on ‘Morality and Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment’

Professor Broadie will argue that the analysis of our moral beliefs and moral institutions was conducted at the level of genius by Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, most especially by Francis Hutcheson, David Hume and Adam Smith. Broadie will discuss their analyses, taking into account the closely related question of the way the religious views of these philosophers impacted on their analyses.

Professor Michael Brown, Chair in Irish, Scottish and Enlightenment History, University of Aberdeen on 'Why the Celtic Enlightenments Matter'

Professor Brown will argue that the simplified connection between Enlightenment and secularisation has long been subject to scholarly scrutiny and revision, so too the causal relationship between secularism and modernity. Yet in the past decade the idea of religion in the eighteenth century has been revisited, suggesting that faith was simultaneously privatised and subjected to the surveillance of the centralising state. Brown proposes that the contrasting trajectories of the Irish and Scottish Enlightenments offer historians challenging case studies for this emerging narrative of political secularism. Examined together they provide critical perspectives on how to connect religious belief with secular society and the European Enlightenment with European modernity.

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