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This chapter provides an introduction to the book. The author discusses the reasons for focusing attention on a group of Scottish writers on moral philosophy. The writers discussed include David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Dugald Stewart, Lord Kames, and Lord Monboddo. First, these writers were so closely connected by ties of friendship, and by the relation of teacher and pupil that it can thought of them as composing a school of high order. In them, it is seen a group of scholars working on the same set of problems over a period of a century. Second, although they stand as a connected group of scholars, mutually influencing one another, they were not an ingrown or isolated group. Third, they were an influential group on other scholars at the time and beyond. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)