Adam Ferguson
Selected Philosophical Writings
1st Edition
Published on 27. September 2012
246 pages
978-1-84540-443-7 (ISBN)
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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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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front matter
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Series Editor's Note
- Editor's Note
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Body matter
- An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)
- PART I: Of the General Characteristics of Human Nature
- Section I: Of the question relating to the State of Nature
- Section II: Of the principles of Self-preservation
- Section III: Of the principles of Union among Mankind
- Section IV: Of the principles of War and Dissension
- Section VII: Of Happiness
- Section VIII: The same subject continued
- PART II: Of the History of Rude Nations
- Section II: Of Rude Nations prior to the Establishment of Property
- Section III: Of Rude Nations under the Impressions of Property and Interest
- PART III: Of the History of Policy and Arts
- Section II: The History of Subordination
- Section VI: Of Civil Liberty
- PART IV: Of the Consequences that result from the Advancement of Civil and Commercial Arts
- Section I: Of the Separation of Arts and Professions
- Section III: Of the Manners of Polished and Commercial Nations
- PART V: Of the Decline of Nations
- Section III: Of Relaxations in the National Spirit incident to Polished Nations
- PART VI: Of Corruption And Political Slavery
- Section III: Of the Corruption incident to Polished Nations
- Section IV: The same subject continued
- Institutes of Moral Philosophy (1769)
- INTRODUCTION
- Section I: Of Knowledge in general
- Section II: Of Science
- Section III: Of the laws of Nature
- Section IV: Of Theory
- Section V: Of Moral Philosophy
- Section VI: Of Pneumatics
- PART III: Of the Knowledge of God
- Chapter I: Of the Being of God
- Chapter II: Of the Attributes of God
- Chapter III: Of the belief of the Immortality of the Human Soul, as founded in Principles of Religion
- History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic (1783)
- BOOK III
- Chapter IV: Character of the Times
- Philosophy
- Principles of Moral and Political Science (1792)
- VOLUME 1
- Introduction
- Part I, Chapter II: Of Mind or the Characteristics of Intelligence
- Section III: Of the Actual Sources of Knowledge and Measures of Evidence
- Section IV: Of the Laws or Canons of Evidence
- Part I, Chapter III: Of Man's Progressive Nature
- Section II: Of the Principles of Progression in Human Nature
- Section III: Of Habit in general
- Section IV: Of Habits of Thinking
- Section V: Of Habit, as it affects the Inclinations of Men
- and their Capacity of Enjoyment or Suffering
- Section VIII: Of Ambition, or the Desire of something higher than is possessed at present
- VOLUME II
- Part II, Chapter I: Of the Specific Good Incident to Human Nature
- Section III: Of Beauty and Deformity, Excellence and Defect
- Section IV: Of Virtue and Vice
- Part II, Chapter II: Of the Fundamental Law of Morality, its Immediate Applications and Sanctions
- SECTION III: Of the Difficulty which has arisen in accounting for Moral Approbation
- Part II, Chapter III: Of Jurisprudence of Compulsory Law
- Section I: Of the Principle of Compulsory Law
- Section IV: Of the general Titles under which the Rights of Men may be classed
- Section V: Of Rights Original
- Section VI: Of Rights Adventitious
- Section VII: Of the different Sources of Adventitious Rights
- Section VIII: Of Occupancy, and the Species of Right that may result from it
- Section IX: Of Labor, and the Species of Right that results from it
- Manuscript Essay
- Of the Principle of Moral Estimation: A Discourse between David Hume, Robert Clerk, and Adam Smith
- Back matter
- Bibliography
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