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Adam Ferguson and the idea of civil society
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Craig Smith is Professor of the History of Political Thought in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Glasgow.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781474413275
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press, (27 November 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 534 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 21 mm
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