Commerce, Virtue, and Politics: Adam Ferguson's Constitutionalism
1983; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 45; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0034670500045526
ISSN1748-6858
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Economic and Social Studies
ResumoAdam Ferguson was one of several moral philosophers who contributed to the Scottish Enlightenment, a period aptly described as one of “remarkable efflorescence.” The works of Ferguson and his fellow Scotsmen — Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart, Lord Kames, Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid — were widely distributed, seriously read, and vigorously debated during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. The greatest contribution of this Scottish school to the history of political thinking was the refinement of the idea of commercial republicanism, the synthesis of modern notions of polity and economy.
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