Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson / edited by Vicenzo Merolle ; contributing editors, Robin Dix, Eugene Heath.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heath, Eugene, editor.

Dix, Robin, 1956- editor.

Merolle, Vincenzo, editor.

Series:

Pickering masters.

Pickering Masters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Modern--19th century--Sources.

Ethics, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Brookfield, Vermont : Pickering & Chato, 2006.

Summary:

This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.

Contents:

The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introductory Essay; Ferguson's Political Philosophy; Ferguson's Moral Philosophy; Ferguson's Aesthetics; Bibliography; MANUSCRIPTS; I. Of Perfection and Happiness; II. What may be Affirmed or Apprehended of the Supreme CreativeBeing; III. Of History and its Appropriate Stile; IV. Of Statesmen and Warriours; V. An Excursion in the Highlands: Discourse on Various Subjects; VI. Of Happiness and Merit; VII. Distinction of Value and its Source in Existence; VIII. Of the Compar[a]tive Forms of Being

IX. Reputed Pleasures of ImaginationX. Cognitutem with the [ ] of Wisdom; XI. Of the Categories or Constituents of Discourse and Fabric ofThought; XII. Of the Distinctions which Mankind Experience; XIII. Of Cause and Effect/ Ends and Means/ Order Combinationand/ Design; XIV. Of the French Revolution; XV. Of the Separation of Departments; XVI. Of the Freedom of Wit and Humour; XVII. Waking Dreams; XVIII. Of the Disstinctions on which we Act in Human; XIX. Of the Categories; XX. Of the Disstinctions on which it is the Lot of Man toDeliberate; XXI. Of the Intellectual System

XXII. Of the Sciences of Which the Subject is MindXXIII. Of Good and Evil Perfection and Defect; XXIV. Of the 1st Law of Living Nature Preserve Thyself; XXV. Of the Principle of Moral Estimation; XXVI. Of Liberty and Necessity; XXVII. Of the Things that Are or May Be; Part I; Part II; XXVIII. Of Nature and Art; XXIX. The Different Aspects of Moral Science; XXX. Of the Laws of Nature in the Department of Active Man; XXXI. Of the Intellectual or Conscious Powers ConceptiveCognitive and Spontaneous; XXXII. Characteristics of Mans Nature; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C

List of Page and Folio NumbersIndex of Names, Subjects and Works Cited

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 17, 2014).

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ISBN:

1-00-307662-9

1-000-16169-2

1-003-07662-9

1-78144-633-4

9781003076629

OCLC:

881162204