Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society : Moral Science in the Scottish Enlightenment EPUB
by Craig Smith
Part of the Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy series
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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.
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- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:14/11/2018
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- Pages:264 pages
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- ISBN:9781474413299