Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

Moral Science in the Scottish Enlightenment

von Craig Smith

264 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen Aufklärung
• ISBN: 9781474474535
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.08.2020
• Größe: 229 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press