Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment
Iain McDaniel
Unlike his contemporaries, who saw Europe’s prosperity as confirmation of a utopian future, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Ferguson saw a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. This is a major reassessment of a critic overshadowed today by David Hume and Adam Smith.
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Год:
2013
Издательство:
Harvard University Press
Страницы:
288
ISBN 10:
0674075269
ISBN 13:
9780674075269
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PDF, 1.64 MB
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2013