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

ISBN: 1474413277

ISBN13: 9781474413275

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

(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...

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