Author: Adam FergusonPublisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781418122706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic. by Adam Ferguson.
Author: Adam FergusonPublisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781418122706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic
Author: Adam FergusonThe History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic by Adam Ferguson, Ll. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. In Three Volumes Illustrated with Maps
Author: Adam FergusonAdam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Iain McDanielPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674075285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe’s growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression—a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon. As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson’s skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions.
The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic Complete in One Volume by Adam Ferguson
Author: Adam FergusonThe History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic
Author: Adam FergusonThe history of the progress and termination of the Roman Republic
Author: Adam FERGUSON (LL.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic by Adam Ferguson, Ll. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. In Three Volumes Illustrated with Maps
Author: An Essay on the History of Civil Society
Author: Adam FergusonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil society
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature
Author: Eugene HeathPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317315367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action.