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Author : John SMALL (M.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018624439
Author : Royal Society of Edinburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Science
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHQ82
Author : Royal Society (Edinburgh)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10499250
Author : Eugene Heath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315339
Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains a set of essays that analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted between Ferguson and other important figures.
Author : Eugene Heath,Vincenzo Merolle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Robin C Dix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000161694
This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z178090309
Author : David Kettler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351534062
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.
Author : John Small
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230433376
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ADAM FERGUSON. The Memoir now submitted to the Society, while it details the chief events in the life of a man who occupied a distinguished place in the literature of Scotland, at a period when it had attained a high reputation, cannot claim to be so complete as might be desired. His life was prolonged for several years after nearly all of his early friends had passed away; and since his death many papers have been destroyed or have fallen aside, which would now be of the greatest interest. Whilst in this way much .has been lost that might have given greater completeness to these pages, still, the recent publication of the Diary of his friend Dr Carlyle of Inveresk, has furnished many additional details, and afforded further evidence of the estimation in which he was held by his literary associates. Several letters selected from the lives of his distinguished friends, and from the Manuscript Collection of the University, in addition to information derived from the short notices of his life already printed, have afforded the materials for preparing this sketch of one, whose career was more varied, while his public labours and literary connections were not less important and extensive, than those of any of his contemporaries. Dr Adam Ferguson, son of the Rev. Adam Ferguson, minister of the parish of Logierait, Perthshire, was born in the manse of that parish on the 20th of June 1723. His father was descended from an old and respectable family in Athole, to whom the estate of Dunfallandy yet pertains; and his mother was the daughter of Mr Gordon of Hallhead, in the county of Aberdeen. In the female line Ferguson traced a connection with the noble family of Argyll, thus referred to in a letter addressed to him by Dr...
Author : R. H. Campbell,A. S. Skinner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135175023
This reissued biography of Adam Smith, first published in 1982, presents both an intellectual and personal portrait of the man. It is not intended as a full-scale scholarly biography burdened with heavy footnotes. Although written by two of the world's foremost authorities on Adam Smith, the book is intended as an accessible study of a great thinker and philosopher which will help to introduce the reader to both his ideas and his period.
Author : Raquel Lázaro Cantero,Julio Seoane
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783487155128
Säkularisierung wird oft mit der Aufklärung in Verbindung gebracht. Jedoch wurde sie nicht von allen Denkern der Aufklärung verfochten. Mithilfe dieses Buches soll Licht auf die von den schottischen Aufklärern aufgedeckten Probleme und Lösungen geworfen werden, die sich bei der Untersuchung des Stellenwertes der Religion in der Gesellschaft auftaten. Tatsächlich sahen Hutcheson, Reid, Hume, Smith, Ferguson und Millar die Situation der Religion in der Gesellschaft aus verschiedenen Perspektiven und kamen oftmals zu sehr unterschiedlichen Schlüssen. Dieses komplexe Verständnis von Religion führte zur Zusammenstellung dieses Buches, welches sich auf drei Fragen konzentriert: Welche Rolle nimmt die Religion in der Gesellschaft ein? Inwieweit beeinflussen die Existenz Gottes und die Naturreligion die soziale Ordnung? Wie sollten bestimmte religiöse Überzeugungen in einem säkularen Kontext verstanden werden, und was haben sie für soziale und moralische Folgen? Diese drei Kernfragen sind eng mit den wesentlichen gemeinsamen Anliegen der schottischen Denker verbunden: der Verteidigung der natürlichen menschlichen Geselligkeit gegen kontraktualistische Theorien sowie der Feststellung, ob die Religion die politische und moralische Gesellschaftsordnung behindert oder bestärkt. Secularization is often associated with the Enlightenment. However, not all Enlightenment thinkers defended it. This book aims to cast light on the problems and solutions that the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment uncovered when studying the place of religion in society. In fact, Hutcheson, Reid, Hume, Smith, Ferguson and Millar saw the situation of religion in society from different perspectives and often reached very different conclusions. This complex understanding of religion is what led us to compile this book, which focuses on three questions: What is the role of religion in society? How does the existence of God and natural religion affect the social order? How should certain religious beliefs be understood in a secular context, and what are their social and moral repercussions? These three key issues are closely connected to the Scottish thinkers’ chief common concerns: defending natural human sociability from contractualist theories and determining whether religion hinders or strengthens the political and moral order of society.
Author : Michael Alexander Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198249667
This is the first volume of the series Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy. Each volume of the series is organized around a particular theme, and is cross-disciplinary in its approach. In this collection of substantial new studies in Scottish Philosophy in the age of Hutcheson andHume, close attention is given to the study of context and the use of original historical sources as a key to philosophical interpretation. The collection includes revolutionary research on Hume's early reading in science and religion and its impact on his philosophy.
Author : Stewart J. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521060639
This is an exploration of William Robertson, a leading figure in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment.
Author : John Small
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104040727
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : N. Waszek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789400927506
The present study, which investigates the influence of the Scottish Enlightenment on Hegel's account of 'civil society' or "biirgerliche Gesellschaft", is based on my PhD thesis, submitted to the University of Cambridge in September 1983. Its publication provides me with a welcome opportunity to acknowledge the help and encouragement I have received over the years from scholars, friends, and relations. At the Ruhr University of Bochum where I began my studies, I am indebted to Professor Otto Poggeler (Director of the Hegel Archives), to the other, past and present members of staff at the Hegel Archives, and to Professors Jiirgen Gebhardt, Jiirgen von Kempski, Heinz Kim merle; and Leo Kofler. It was my time at Bochum under the guidance of these scholars that kindled my love for the study of Hegel, which proved to be a lasting romance. In Scotland, where I continued my studies and spent two fruitful and happy years, I am indebted to George Elder Davie and Richard Gunn, who first introduced me to the Scottish Enlightenment, and to Professors R. H. Campbell and T. D. Campbell, who supervised my research in that field. At Cambridge, where most of this study was prepared, my greatest debt is to Duncan Forbes. I am grateful for his supervision of my research, but also, beyond the scope of my research, for what I have learned, genuinely learned, from the man.
