Abstract
Abstract Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards engaged in a dialogue about human nature that included participants throughout the Western world. In the eighteenth century, however, no corner of Western civilization was more deeply engaged with problems concerning human nature, the development of the self, and the relationship between the self and society, than Scotland. From Scotland came many of the ideas that American thinkers of the eighteenth century and after applied to the issues confronting them. For this reason it seems desirable to look specifically at the Scottish Enlightenment and its relationship to American thought during the generation after the death of Edwards. Both the Constitution of the United States and the arguments made on its behalf were deeply informed by contemporary ideas about the self and society, many of which came from Scotland.
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