Thursday, May 19, 2005

Enlightenment - Better Later than Never

I've (belatedly) got round to reading the book "The Scottish Enlightenment" by Arthur Herman. As well as making me feel rather patriotic, it's a reminder, in a very readable form, of the fact that business, profit and moral and social values have not always, or not inevitably, been thought to be inconsistent. What would Hutcheson, Smith and Hume think of the accessing medicines debate?

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