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Author Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816

Title Adam Ferguson : selected philosophical writings / edited and introduced by Eugene Heath
Published Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA : Imprint Academic, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (v, 178 pages)
Series Library of Scottish philosophy
Library of Scottish philosophy
Contents Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Series Editor's Note; Editor's Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Body matter; An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767); PART I: Of the General Characteristics of Human Nature; Section I: Of the question relating to the State of Nature; Section II: Of the principles of Self-preservation; Section III: Of the principles of Union among Mankind; Section IV: Of the principles of War and Dissension; Section VII: Of Happiness; Section VIII: The same subject continued; PART II: Of the History of Rude Nations
Section II: Of Rude Nations prior to the Establishment of PropertySection III: Of Rude Nations under the Impressions of Property and Interest; PART III: Of the History of Policy and Arts; Section II: The History of Subordination; Section VI: Of Civil Liberty; PART IV: Of the Consequences that result from the Advancement of Civil and Commercial Arts; Section I: Of the Separation of Arts and Professions; Section III: Of the Manners of Polished and Commercial Nations; PART V: Of the Decline of Nations; Section III: Of Relaxations in the National Spirit incident to Polished Nations
PART VI: Of Corruption And Political SlaverySection III: Of the Corruption incident to Polished Nations; Section IV: The same subject continued; Institutes of Moral Philosophy (1769); INTRODUCTION; Section I: Of Knowledge in general; Section II: Of Science; Section III: Of the laws of Nature; Section IV: Of Theory; Section V: Of Moral Philosophy; Section VI: Of Pneumatics; PART III: Of the Knowledge of God; Chapter I: Of the Being of God; Chapter II: Of the Attributes of God; Chapter III: Of the belief of the Immortality of the Human Soul, as founded in Principles of Religion
History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic (1783)BOOK III; Chapter IV: Character of the Times; Philosophy; Principles of Moral and Political Science (1792); VOLUME 1; Introduction; Part I, Chapter II: Of Mind or the Characteristics of Intelligence; Section III: Of the Actual Sources of Knowledge and Measures of Evidence; Section IV: Of the Laws or Canons of Evidence; Part I, Chapter III: Of Man's Progressive Nature; Section II: Of the Principles of Progression in Human Nature; Section III: Of Habit in general; Section IV: Of Habits of Thinking
Section V: Of Habit, as it affects the Inclinations of Men and their Capacity of Enjoyment or Suffering; Section VIII: Of Ambition, or the Desire of something higher than is possessed at present; VOLUME II; Part II, Chapter I: Of the Specific Good Incident to Human Nature; Section III: Of Beauty and Deformity, Excellence and Defect; Section IV: Of Virtue and Vice; Part II, Chapter II: Of the Fundamental Law of Morality, its Immediate Applications and Sanctions; SECTION III: Of the Difficulty which has arisen in accounting for Moral Approbation
Summary "A philosopher and historian, Adam Ferguson occupies a unique place within eighteenth-century Scottish thought. A man of energy and verve, he made important contributions to social and moral theory, political philosophy and to the study of history. Reared in the highlands of Scotland, he lived most of his life in the enlightenment world of Edinburgh, participating in the city's social clubs and in the broader public and intellectual life of his nation. Renowned for An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767), he also wrote pamphlets on political issues, published works of moral and political philosophy, authored a multi-volume history of the Roman Republic and composed numerous manuscript essays. Distinguished by a moral and historical bent, his work is framed within a teleological outlook that upholds the importance of action and virtue in the emerging commercial society of the eighteenth century."--Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171) and index
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Subject Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 fast
Ferguson, Adam. swd
Subject Philosophy.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Philosophy
Philosophie
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Heath, Eugene
LC no. 2007282391
ISBN 9781845404420
1845404424
1283692821
9781283692823
1845404432
9781845404437
Other Titles Works. Selections. 2007
Adam Ferguson -- selected philosophical writings