Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment

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Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment is written by Iain McDaniel and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674075285 (ISBN 10) and 9780674075283 (ISBN 13).

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.