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The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson

by: Dix,Robin C

The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson

by: Dix,Robin C

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9781851968176
ISBN 10:
1851968172
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/01/2005
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd

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This volume contains a newly edited cache of over thirty essays on a diverse range of topics from renowned philosopher, Adam Ferguson, a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. It aims to set the Essays more fully in the history of western philosophy, to which they made an important contribution.

Of perfection and happiness	p. 3
What may be affirmed or apprehended of the supreme creative being	p. 13
Of history and its appropriate stile	p. 19
Of statesmen and warriours	p. 33
An excursion in the highlands : discourse on various subjects	p. 47
Of happiness and merit	p. 71
Distinction of value and its source in existence	p. 77
Of the compar[a]tive forms of being	p. 91
Reputed pleasures of imagination	p. 97
Cognitutem with the [ ] of wisdom	p. 103
Of the categories or constituents of discourse and fabric of thought	p. 109
Of the distinctions which mankind experience or apprehend in the nature of things to direct them in what they pursue or avoid	p. 115
Of cause and effect / ends and means / order combination and / design	p. 121
Of the French Revolution with its actual and still impending consequences in Europe	p. 133
Of the separation of departments professions and tasks resulting from the progress of arts in society	p. 143
Of the freedom of wit and humour and their value as a test of rectitude and truth	p. 153
Waking dreams	p. 159
Of the disstinctions on which we act in human life	p. 165
Of the categories	p. 169
Of the disstinctions on which it is the lot of man to deliberate	p. 177
Of the intellectual system	p. 183
Of the sciences of which the subject is mind	p. 189
Of good and evil perfection and defect	p. 195
Of the 1st law of living nature : Preserve thyself	p. 203
Of the principle of moral estimation : a discourse between David Hume, Robert Clerk and Adam Smith	p. 207
Of liberty and necessity	p. 217
Of the things that are or may be	p. 221
Of nature and art	p. 243
The different aspects of moral science	p. 249
Of the laws of nature in the department of active man	p. 255
Of the intellectual or conscious powers conceptive cognitive and spontaneous	p. 259
Characteristics of man's nature	p. 267
Essay and fragments not included in Dr. Lee's collection	p. 281
On the reception of Ferguson's works	p. 299
Letters from and to Adam Ferguson	p. 329
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The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson

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