James Beattie

So the genesis of the Scottish school of common sense was a clinical response, again, to the skepticism that the Enlightenment provided.

The main thinkers involved in this kind of rebuttal to the Enlightenment were people like Thomas Reed, Adam Ferguson, James Beattie, DeGaulle Stewart.

Those men, these Scottish thinkers, they saw a flaw in the Enlightenment.

And really, you could look at this thing.