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Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) was a leading figure of the “Scottish Enlightenment,” a period of intense intellectual activity that took place in the second half of the eighteenth century. Famous in his day, Ferguson held the Chair in Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (1764–1785) and exerted considerable intellectual influence in Britain, Europe and America.
Adam Ferguson is an Australian photographer based in New York. Ferguson’s work has explored conflict and implications of the post 9/11 wars. His portraiture has received two World Press Photo awards and in 2018 he was named ‘Photographer of the Year’ by Photo District News and ‘Freelance Photographe
Chapter 1 includes a biography of Adam Ferguson and examines the various critical interpretations of his thought. It concludes that each of these, stoic, civic republican, natural jurisprudence, Marxist sociological, Highlander, and conservative, are partial accounts that miss important features of his thought.
Adam Ferguson, sometimes known as Ferguson of Raith (June 20, 1723 (O.S.) - February 22, 1816) was a philosopher and historian in the Scottish Enlightenment. Most well known for his association with David Hume and Adam Smith, he contributed a social and political perspective on the development of philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment.His most well known work is An Essay on the History of ...
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.
Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian was one of the great Scottish Enlightenment figures and is considered by many to be the founder of sociology. He was born, the youngest of nine children in the Perthshire village of Logierait and lived from 1723 to 1816. Initially tutored at home by his father, a local parish minister, Adam Ferguson ...
1 de ene. de 2019 · Abstract. Adam Ferguson was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment. A friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, Ferguson was among the leading exponents of the Scottish Enlightenment’s attempts to develop a science of man and was among the first in the English speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil ...
