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Author : William C. Lehmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0374948941
Author : William C. Lehmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1405485346
Author : William Christian Lehmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Civilization
ISBN : LCCN:30039125
Author : Louis S. Reed,Louise Venable Kennedy,William Christian Lehmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : African Americans
ISBN : WISC:89058271289
Author : Lisa Hill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402038907
Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and distinctive. This book is a study of his ideas and of the intellectual forces that shaped them. Though somewhat overlooked in the nineteenth century, Ferguson was rescued from obscurity in the first half of the twentieth century by scholars interested in the origins of sociology and early critiques of modernity. Ferguson’s interest in the mechanics of social life and especially social change led him to many groundbreaking insights. In fact, he is sometimes identified as the 'Father of Modern Sociology'. In addition to exploring whether or not he merits this title, this study examines the whole of Ferguson’s thought as a system and includes his moral and faculty psychology, historiography, theology, politics and social science. Ferguson is distinguished by his deep appreciation of the complexity of the human condition; his study of society is based on the belief that it is not only reason, but the unseen, unplanned, sub-rational and visceral forces that keep the human universe in motion. Ferguson’s appreciation of this fact, and his ability to make social science of it, is his major achievement.
Author : Lisa Hill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1402038895
Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and distinctive. This book is a study of his ideas and of the intellectual forces that shaped them. Though somewhat overlooked in the nineteenth century, Ferguson was rescued from obscurity in the first half of the twentieth century by scholars interested in the origins of sociology and early critiques of modernity. Ferguson’s interest in the mechanics of social life and especially social change led him to many groundbreaking insights. In fact, he is sometimes identified as the 'Father of Modern Sociology'. In addition to exploring whether or not he merits this title, this study examines the whole of Ferguson’s thought as a system and includes his moral and faculty psychology, historiography, theology, politics and social science. Ferguson is distinguished by his deep appreciation of the complexity of the human condition; his study of society is based on the belief that it is not only reason, but the unseen, unplanned, sub-rational and visceral forces that keep the human universe in motion. Ferguson’s appreciation of this fact, and his ability to make social science of it, is his major achievement.
Author : Adam Ferguson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0521447364
Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society (first published in 1767) is a classic of the Scottish - and European - Enlightenment. Drawing on such diverse sources as classical authors and contemporary travel literature, Ferguson offers a complex model of historical advance which challenges both Hume's and Smith's embrace of modernity and the primitivism of Rousseau. Ferguson combines a subtle analysis of the emergence of modern commercial society with a critique of its abandonment of civic and communal virtues. Central to Ferguson's theory of citizenship are the themes of conflict, play, political participation and military valour. The Essay is a bold and novel attempt to reclaim the tradition of active, virtuous citizenship and apply it to the modern state.
Author : Adam Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781406864052
Headings include human nature, the History of Rude Nations, of Policy and Arts, and Corruption and Political Slavery
Author : Adam Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Civil society
ISBN : OXFORD:590358119
Author : David Kettler
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1412804752
The thought of Adam Ferguson generated great excitement among many of his philosophic contemporaries in the late eighteenth century, and it continues to inspire the modern reader. This major study by David Kettler is an ideal introduction to Ferguson's life and thought. The new introduction to this first paperback edition discusses Ferguson's work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers an in-depth reconsideration of Ferguson's most renowned work, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, with emphasis on present-day disputes about the concept of civil society. Ferguson welcomed the advent of critical and analytical philosophy as an ally against superstitious credulity and confused obscurantism, but he was afraid that it might also dissolve into incomprehensible technical complexity and ethical relativism. He was attracted by the manifest practical accomplishments of modern science, as well as by its masterful ordering of natural phenomena into a unified theoretical structure, but he feared that its adherents would debase the notion of man to that of a machine at the mercy of mechanical forces. Ferguson thought well of ambition, but he also believed that a frenzy of ambition and frustration, might tear at man's self-respect and peace of mind. The decisive phenomenon manifested by Ferguson's writing is the emergence of an intellectual's point of view toward the conditions of modern society. Many of the questions that he posed have been restated in more profound ways, some of the questions and most of the answers have been eliminated or transformed beyond recognition; and all of the issues he raises are now expressed by others in harsh, new words. But, however formulated, Ferguson's concerns clearly foreshadow the problems of over-rationalization, dehumanization, atomization, alienation, and bureaucratization that have been repeatedly canvassed by intellectuals in our time. David Kettler is Research Professor at Bard College in New York. Before that he held senior positions at the Ohio State University and Trent University. True to the spirit of his interests, he served a term at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Edinburgh. He is a well published, widely read scholar.
Author : Adam Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z180892504
Author : Eugene Heath,Vincenzo Merolle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315377
Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action.
Author : Jack A. Hill
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498504584
This book is about learning how to live the good life. Part biography and part philosophical inquiry, it is a fresh, original interpretation of the intellectual world of the largely forgotten, eighteenth-century professor, Adam Ferguson. Although less well-known today than his famous Scottish contemporaries, Adam Smith and David Hume, Ferguson was considered their equal in the 18th century. The book shows how Ferguson, who grew up speaking Gaelic and English, and spent a decade ministering to a Highlander regiment, developed a distinctive, cross-cultural approach to moral philosophy that is relevant for doing comparative ethics in today’s global village. The premise is that life in the twenty-first century is plagued by a moral disorientation that has affinities with the materialism, privatization, social fragmentation and spiritual crises that were emerging in 18th-century, urban Scotland. Like his peers in medical science, Ferguson pursued what was then known as moral science with a particular concern to diagnose and treat moral “dis-ease.” The book contends that his moral philosophy lectures became strikingly modern experiments in recovering moral moorings—disclosing epitomes of moral dynamics, investigating the use of moral terms in ordinary language, and crafting moral principles, such as probity, which preserved classical moral virtues but also incorporated the practical wisdom of ‘peoples of the mountains.’ Although focused on re-discovering Ferguson as a full-blown ethicist before his time, the book is also intended as a primer for the reader’s own quest for living a life which is emblematic of ethical integrity The primary audience for this book is philosophers, historians, religious studies scholars who specialize in ethics, eighteenth-century English literature scholars, and social scientists (anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists) who focus on the eighteenth-century.
Author : J. Holmwood,J. Scott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137318862
Leading sociologists outline the historical development of the discipline in Britain and document its continuing influence in this essential and comprehensive reference work. Spanning the Scottish enlightenment of the 18th century to the present day this Handbook maps the discipline and the British contribution.
Author : Smith Craig Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 9781474413299
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.
