Adam Ferguson In The Scottish Enlightenment
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Adam Ferguson In The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Iain McDaniel
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-18
Adam Ferguson In The Scottish Enlightenment written by Iain McDaniel and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-18 with History categories.
Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe’s growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression—a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon. As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson’s skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions.
Adam Ferguson And The Idea Of Civil Society
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Author : Craig Smith
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-14
Adam Ferguson And The Idea Of Civil Society written by Craig Smith and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-14 with Philosophy categories.
Adam Ferguson, a friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, was among the leading Scottish Enlightenment figures who worked to develop a science of man. He created a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising. He was among the first in the English-speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society and political science. Craig Smith explores Ferguson's thought, and examines his attempt to develop a genuine moral science and its place in providing a secure basis for the virtuous education of the new elite of Hanoverian Britain. The Ferguson that emerges is far from the stereotyped image of a republican sceptical about commercial society and much closer to the mainstream of the Scottish Enlightenment and its defence of the new British commercial order.
Adam Ferguson History Progress And Human Nature
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Author : Eugene Heath
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-30
Adam Ferguson History Progress And Human Nature written by Eugene Heath and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-30 with History categories.
Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action.
Adam Ferguson Philosophy Politics And Society
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Author : Eugene Heath
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-30
Adam Ferguson Philosophy Politics And Society written by Eugene Heath and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-30 with Philosophy categories.
Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains a set of essays that analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted between Ferguson and other important figures.
Adam Ferguson
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Author : David Allan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Adam Ferguson written by David Allan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Manuscripts Of Adam Ferguson
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Author : Robin C Dix
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-26
The Manuscripts Of Adam Ferguson written by Robin C Dix and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-26 with Philosophy categories.
This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.
The Passionate Society
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Author : Lisa Hill
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-10-12
The Passionate Society written by Lisa Hill and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-12 with Social Science categories.
Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and distinctive. This book is a study of his ideas and of the intellectual forces that shaped them. Though somewhat overlooked in the nineteenth century, Ferguson was rescued from obscurity in the first half of the twentieth century by scholars interested in the origins of sociology and early critiques of modernity. Ferguson’s interest in the mechanics of social life and especially social change led him to many groundbreaking insights. In fact, he is sometimes identified as the 'Father of Modern Sociology'. In addition to exploring whether or not he merits this title, this study examines the whole of Ferguson’s thought as a system and includes his moral and faculty psychology, historiography, theology, politics and social science. Ferguson is distinguished by his deep appreciation of the complexity of the human condition; his study of society is based on the belief that it is not only reason, but the unseen, unplanned, sub-rational and visceral forces that keep the human universe in motion. Ferguson’s appreciation of this fact, and his ability to make social science of it, is his major achievement.
An Essay On The History Of Civil Society
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Author : Adam Ferguson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1767
An Essay On The History Of Civil Society written by Adam Ferguson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1767 with categories.
An Essay On The History Of Civil Society
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Author : Adam Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-05-02
An Essay On The History Of Civil Society written by Adam Ferguson and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-02 with categories.
"An Essay on the History of Civil Society" from Adam Ferguson. Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment (1723-1816).
Adam Ferguson
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Author : Eugene Heath
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2012-09-27
Adam Ferguson written by Eugene Heath and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with Philosophy categories.
A philosopher and historian, Adam Ferguson occupies a unique place within eighteenth-century Scottish thought. Distinguished by a moral and historical bent, his work is framed within a teleological outlook that upholds the importance of action and virtue.