The Passionate Society The Social, Political and Moral Thought of Adam Ferguson /

• Main Author: Hill, Lisa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d’histoire des idées, 191
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Political science.; Political philosophy.; Economic history.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociological Theory.; Sociology, general.; History, general.; Political Philosophy.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.; Political Science.

Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and distinctive. This book is a study of his ideas and of the intellectual forces that shaped them. Though somewhat overlooked in the nineteenth century, Ferguson was rescued from...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Passionate Society
• Reading Ferguson
• Ferguson’s Theology/Ontology
• Method and Historiography
• Ferguson’s Faculty and Moral Psychology
• Ferguson’s “Invisible Hand”
• Ferguson’S Early Conflict Theory
• Habit
• The Environment
• Corruption And Problems Of Modernity
• Progress and Decline
• Ferguson’s Conservatism
• Conclusion.