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回答题Scotland: A Land of Wisdom
In the 1740s, the famous Frenchphilosopher Voltaire said, "We look to Scotland for all our ideas ofcivilization." That's not a bad advertisement for any country when itcomes to attracting people to search for a first-class education.
According to the American author ArthurHerman, the Scots invented the modern world itself.He argues that Scottishthinkers and intellectuals worked out many of the most important ideas on whichmodern life depends — everything from the scientific method to marketeconomics.Their ideas did not just spread among intellectuals, but to thosepeople in business, government and the sciences who actually shaped the Westernworld.
It all started during the period thathistorians call the Scottish Enlightenment (启蒙运动),which is usually seen as taking placebetween the years 1740 and 1800.Before that, philosophy was mainly concernedwith religion.For the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, the proper studyof humanity was mankind itself.
Their reasoning was practical.For thephilosopher David Hume, humanity was the right subject for philosophy becausewe can examine human behavior and so find real evidence of how people think andfeel.And from that we can make judgments about the societies we live in andmake concrete suggestions about how they can be improved, for universalbenefit.
Hume's enquiry into the nature ofknowledge laid the foundations for the scientific method — the pursuit of truththrough experiment.His friend and fellow resident of Edinburgh, Adam Smith,famously applied the study of mankind to the ways in which mankind doesbusiness.Trade, he argued, was a form of information.In pursuing our owninterests through trading in markets, we all come to benefit each other.
Smith's idea has dominated modern views ofeconomics.It also has wide applications.He was one of the philosophers topoint out that nations can become rich, free and powerful through peace, trade andinvention.
Although the Scottish Enlightenment endeda long time ago, the ideas which evolved at that time still underpin (构成......的基础 ) our theories of humanexchange and enquiry.It also exists in Scotland itself in an educationaltradition that combines academic excellence with orientation ( 方向).
Scotland is theright place to receive a first-class education. A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Notmentioned
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