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Adam Ferguson: Selected Philosophical Writings
Author(s): Adam Ferguson (Author), Eugene Heath
- Publisher: Imprint Academic
- Publication Date: 29 Aug. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 250 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845400569
- ISBN-13: 9781845400569
Book Description
A philosopher and historian, Adam Ferguson occupies a unique place within eighteenth-century Scottish thought. Distinguished by a moral and historical bent, his work is framed within a teleological outlook that upholds the importance of action and virtue.
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“The volumes on Adam Ferguson and Dugald Stuart rise to the normal standard of the series and achieve the aims of the series with their insightful and rewarding selection of original texts and their accurate and informative introductions.”
— Thomas D. Kennedy ― Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies
