Adam Ferguson

Informationen zum Autor David Kettler Klappentext This major study by David Kettler is an ideal introduction to Fergusons life and thought. The new preface to this first paperback edition discusses Fergusons work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers an in-depth reconsideration of Fergusons most renowned work, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, with emphasis on present-day disputes about the concept of civil society. Zusammenfassung An introduction to Adam Ferguson's life and thought. The introduction discusses Ferguson's work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers an indepth reconsideration of Ferguson's most renowned work, An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; I: Adam Ferguson's Situation; I: The Transformation of Scotland; II: The Emerging Intelligentsia; III: Adam Ferguson: Biography; IV: Adam Ferguson: Political Opinion aud Political Practice; II: Adam Ferguson's Moral Philosophy; V: The Possibility of Knowledge; VI: The Virtuous Man; 7: Virtue and Society; Afterword

Autorentext
David Kettler

Klappentext
This major study by David Kettler is an ideal introduction to Fergusons life and thought. The new preface to this first paperback edition discusses Fergusons work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers an in-depth reconsideration of Fergusons most renowned work, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, with emphasis on present-day disputes about the concept of civil society.


Zusammenfassung
An introduction to Adam Ferguson's life and thought. The introduction discusses Ferguson's work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers an indepth reconsideration of Ferguson's most renowned work, An Essay on the History of Civil Society.

Inhalt
Introduction; I: Adam Ferguson's Situation; I: The Transformation of Scotland; II: The Emerging Intelligentsia; III: Adam Ferguson: Biography; IV: Adam Ferguson: Political Opinion aud Political Practice; II: Adam Ferguson's Moral Philosophy; V: The Possibility of Knowledge; VI: The Virtuous Man; 7: Virtue and Society; Afterword

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