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Author : Adam Ferguson
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Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the History of Civil Society written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Ferguson
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Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book An Essay on the History of Civil Society written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Smith Craig Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474413293
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society written by Smith Craig Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Adam Ferguson
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Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (519 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the History of Civil Society written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Ferguson
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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the History of Civil Society written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Ferguson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107782473
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society written by Adam Ferguson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society (first published in 1767) is a classic of the Scottish - and European - Enlightenment. Drawing on such diverse sources as classical authors and contemporary travel literature, Ferguson offers a complex model of historical advance which challenges both Hume's and Smith's embrace of modernity and the primitivism of Rousseau. Ferguson combines a subtle analysis of the emergence of modern commercial society with a critique of its abandonment of civic and communal virtues. Central to Ferguson's theory of citizenship are the themes of conflict, play, political participation and military valour. The Essay is a bold and novel attempt to reclaim the tradition of active, virtuous citizenship and apply it to the modern state.
Author : Iain McDaniel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674075285
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment written by Iain McDaniel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Adam Ferguson
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the History of Civil Society. By Adam Ferguson, LL.D. .. written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on the History of Civil Society. By Adam Ferguson, LL. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh written by and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susumu Egashira
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811593957
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book A Genealogy of Self-Interest in Economics written by Susumu Egashira and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to describe the entire developmental history of the human aspects of economics. The issue of “self-interest” is discussed throughout, from pre-Adam Smith to contemporary neuroeconomics, representing a unique contribution to economics. Though the notion of self-interest has been interpreted in several ways by various schools of economics and economists since Smith first placed it at the heart of the field, this is the first book to focus on this important but overlooked topic. Traditionally, economic theory has presupposed that the core of human behavior is self-interest. Nevertheless, some economists, e.g. recent behavioral economists, have cast doubt on this “self-interested” explanation. Further, though many economists have agreed on the central role of self-interest in economic behavior, each economist’s positioning of self-interest in economic theory differs to some degree. This book helps to elucidate the position of self-interest in economic theory. Given its focus, it is a must-read companion, not only on the history of economic thought but also on economic theory. Furthermore, as today’s capitalism is increasingly causing people to wonder just where self-interest lies, it also appeals to general readers.
Author : Virginia Ann Hodgkinson
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584652780
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)
Download or read book The Civil Society Reader written by Virginia Ann Hodgkinson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "civil society" anthology for experts and students alike.
Author : David Kettler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351534068
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson written by David Kettler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thought of Adam Ferguson generated great excitement among many of his philosophic contemporaries in the late eighteenth century, and it continues to inspire the modern reader. This major study by David Kettler is an ideal introduction to Ferguson's life and thought. The new introduction to this first paperback edition discusses Ferguson's work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers an in-depth reconsideration of Ferguson's most renowned work, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, with emphasis on present-day disputes about the concept of civil society. Ferguson welcomed the advent of critical and analytical philosophy as an ally against superstitious credulity and confused obscurantism, but he was afraid that it might also dissolve into incomprehensible technical complexity and ethical relativism. He was attracted by the manifest practical accomplishments of modern science, as well as by its masterful ordering of natural phenomena into a unified theoretical structure, but he feared that its adherents would debase the notion of man to that of a machine at the mercy of mechanical forces. Ferguson thought well of ambition, but he also believed that a frenzy of ambition and frustration might tear at man's self-respect and peace of mind. The decisive phenomenon manifested by Ferguson's writing is the emergence of an intellectual's point of view toward the conditions of modern society. Many of the questions that he posed have been restated in more profound ways, some of the questions and most of the answers have been eliminated or transformed beyond recognition; and all of the issues he raises are now expressed by others in harsh, new words. But, however formulated, Ferguson's concerns clearly foreshadow the problems of over-rationalization, dehumanization, atomization, alienation, and bureaucratization that have been repeatedly canvassed by intellectuals in our time.
Author : Adam Ferguson
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Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the History of Civil Society written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Diane Nordeen
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Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (546 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson on Civil Society written by Patricia Diane Nordeen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Ferguson
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Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book An Essay on the History of Civil Society. By Adam Ferguson... The Fifth Edition written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Plassart
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ISBN 13 : 9782350301716
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson written by Anna Plassart and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tous les titres sont organisés autour d'une structure commune : des repères : un rappel du contexte historique et littéraire ; les grandes "thématiques" indispensables à la compréhension des enjeux de la question ; des outils méthodologiques : chronologie, glossaire, bibliographie ; un système de circulation entre les fiches et les références bibliographiques.
Author : Adam Ferguson
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book An Essay on the History of Civil Society by Adam Ferguson, LL.D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. A New Edition written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
