Download or read book Biographical sketch of Adam Ferguson written by John Small and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Adam Ferguson From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh written by John SMALL (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Adam Ferguson written by John Small and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short but informative biography offers a glimpse into the life of Adam Ferguson, a prominent 18th century Scottish philosopher and historian. Drawing on a variety of sources, including letters and personal anecdotes, John Small provides a vivid portrait of Ferguson's career as a public intellectual and his impact on the fields of philosophy and sociology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Adam Ferguson written by John Small and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Adam Ferguson written by Emeritus Professor of Geography John Small and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Adam Ferguson Primary Source Edition written by Emeritus Professor of Geography John Small and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Adam Ferguson LL D F R S E Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh written by John Small and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Adam Ferguson LL D Prof of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh written by John Small and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Adam Ferguson Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by John Small (Librarian of Edinburgh University.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adam Ferguson written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Webpage includes a biography of Adam Ferguson a philosopher associated with the Scottish Enlightenment.
Download or read book Adam Ferguson written by David Allan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unpublished Essays of Adam Ferguson written by Winifred M. Philip and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson written by Robin C Dix and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson 1745 1780 written by Adam Ferguson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pickering edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The correspondence includes letters between Ferguson and Adam Smith, David Hume and Alexander Carlyle and many other central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Download or read book Adam Ferguson and Ethical Integrity written by Jack A. Hill and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about learning how to live the good life. Part biography and part philosophical inquiry, it is a fresh, original interpretation of the intellectual world of the largely forgotten, eighteenth-century professor, Adam Ferguson. Although less well-known today than his famous Scottish contemporaries, Adam Smith and David Hume, Ferguson was considered their equal in the 18th century. The book shows how Ferguson, who grew up speaking Gaelic and English, and spent a decade ministering to a Highlander regiment, developed a distinctive, cross-cultural approach to moral philosophy that is relevant for doing comparative ethics in today’s global village. The premise is that life in the twenty-first century is plagued by a moral disorientation that has affinities with the materialism, privatization, social fragmentation and spiritual crises that were emerging in 18th-century, urban Scotland. Like his peers in medical science, Ferguson pursued what was then known as moral science with a particular concern to diagnose and treat moral “dis-ease.” The book contends that his moral philosophy lectures became strikingly modern experiments in recovering moral moorings—disclosing epitomes of moral dynamics, investigating the use of moral terms in ordinary language, and crafting moral principles, such as probity, which preserved classical moral virtues but also incorporated the practical wisdom of ‘peoples of the mountains.’ Although focused on re-discovering Ferguson as a full-blown ethicist before his time, the book is also intended as a primer for the reader’s own quest for living a life which is emblematic of ethical integrity The primary audience for this book is philosophers, historians, religious studies scholars who specialize in ethics, eighteenth-century English literature scholars, and social scientists (anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists) who focus on the eighteenth-century.
Download or read book Adam Ferguson written by David Kettler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
