Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society : Moral Science in the Scottish Enlightenment Paperback / softback
by Craig Smith
Part of the Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/2020
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- ISBN:9781474474535
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474474535
