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Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

By Craig Smith

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About the book

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...Show more

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9781474413275

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published year

2018

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Edition

1

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Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

Format

Hardcover

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