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Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society Moral Science in the Scottish Enlightenment

Smith, Craig
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781474474535
Publisert
2020-08-25
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
410 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Smith, Craig

Om bidragsyterne

Craig Smith is Professor of the History of Political Thought in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Glasgow.

Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society Moral Science in the Scottish Enlightenment

Smith, Craig
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
Smith, Craig
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
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A penetrating analysis of Ferguson's moral thought (including science, philosophy, and education), building on a mastery of the primary and secondary literature and a commitment to treat Ferguson's body of writing comprehensively and on its own highly eclectic terms.

Richard B. Sher, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University

Indeed, Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society is the best introduction to Ferguson’s work published to date, for it covers the full range of his published and unpublished writings and functions as a helpful guide to the secondary literature.

- Paul Wood, Scottish Historical Review

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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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 much closer to the mainstream of the Scottish Enlightenment than previous studies have suggested.
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Preface List of Ferguson’s Works 1. Introduction 2. Moral Science 3. Moral Philosophy 4. Moral Education 5. Civil Society and Civilisation 6. Civilised Warfare Bibliography
The first monograph explicitly devoted to the idea of civil society in the work of Adam Ferguson – its earliest British exponent

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A penetrating analysis of Ferguson's moral thought (including science, philosophy, and education), building on a mastery of the primary and secondary literature and a commitment to treat Ferguson's body of writing comprehensively and on its own highly eclectic terms.

Richard B. Sher, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University

Indeed, Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society is the best introduction to Ferguson’s work published to date, for it covers the full range of his published and unpublished writings and functions as a helpful guide to the secondary literature.

- Paul Wood, Scottish Historical Review

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.
Les mer
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 much closer to the mainstream of the Scottish Enlightenment than previous studies have suggested.
Les mer
Preface List of Ferguson’s Works 1. Introduction 2. Moral Science 3. Moral Philosophy 4. Moral Education 5. Civil Society and Civilisation 6. Civilised Warfare Bibliography
The first monograph explicitly devoted to the idea of civil society in the work of Adam Ferguson – its earliest British exponent

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474474535
Publisert
2020-08-25
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
410 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Smith, Craig

Om bidragsyterne

Craig Smith is Professor of the History of Political Thought in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Glasgow.

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