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回答题Scotland: A Land of Wisdom
In the 1740s, the famous French philosopher Voltaire said "We look to Scotland for all ourideas of civilization. " That's not a bad advertisement for any country when it comes toattracting people to search for a first-class education.
According to the American author Arthur Herman, the Scots invented the modern worlditself. He argues that Scottish thinkers .and intellectuals worked out many of the most importantideas on which modern life depend -- everything from the scientific method to marketeconomics. Their ideas did not just spread among intellectuals, but to those people in business,government and the sciences who actually shaped the Western world.
It all started during the period that historians call the Scottish Enlightenment (启蒙运动),which is usually seen as taking place between the years 1740 and 1800, Before that, philosophywas mainly concerned with religion. For the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, the properstudy of humanity was mankind itself.
Their reasoning was practical. For the philosopher David Hume, humanity was the rightsubject for philosophy because we can examine human behavior and so find real evidence of howpeople think and feel. And from that we can make judgments about the societies we live in andmake concrete suggestions about how they can be improved, for universal benefit.
Hume' s enquiry into the nature of knowledge laid the foundations for the scientific method ——the pursuit of truth through experiment. His friend and fellow resident of Edinburgh, AdamSmith, famously applied the study of mankind to the ways in which mankind does business.Trade, he argued, was a form of information. In pursuing our own interests through trading inmarkets, we all come to benefit each other.
Smith's idea has dominated modern views of economics. It also has wide applications. Hewas one of the philosophers to point out that nations can become rich, free and powerful throughpeace, trade and invention.
Although the Scottish Enlightenment ended a long time ago, the ideas which evolved at thattime still underpin (构成……的基础 ) our theories of human exchange and enquiry. It als0exists in Scotland itself in an educational tradition that combines academic excellence withorientation ( 方向).
Scotland is the right place to receive a first-class education. A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
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