For 10 points, name this home of Frances Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, and David Hume.
One thinker from this country published a rebuttal of Mandeville's fable of the bees and attacked Hobbes in his essay Thoughts of Laughter after establishing an influential ethical philosophy in An Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil. Another thinker from this country advocated "direct realism" in attacking the idealism of Berkeley and championed the "vulgar" or the "sensus communis." Another philosopher from this country proposed that each person is made up of a "bundle" of attributes and argued that although it is necessary in everyday life, a justification of (*) induction is impossible. That philosopher's criticism of those who offer prescriptive instead of descriptive theories is called the "is-ought" problem and found in his A Treatise of Human Nature. For 10 points, name this home of Frances Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, and David Hume.
One thinker from this country published a rebuttal of Mandeville's fable of the bees and attacked Hobbes in his essay Thoughts of Laughter after establishing an influential ethical philosophy in An Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil.
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