The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson: (The Pickering Masters)

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

Table of 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 Creative Being 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 Imagination X. Cognitutem with the [ ] of Wisdom XI. Of the Categories or Constituents of Discourse and Fabric of Thought XII. Of the Distinctions which Mankind Experience or Apprehend in the Nature of Things to Direct them in what they Pursue or Avoid XIII. Of Cause and Effect/ Ends and Means/ Order Combination and/ Design XIV. Of the French Revolution with its Actual and Still Impending Consequences in Europe XV. Of the Separation of Departments Professions and Tasks Resulting from the Progress of Arts in Society XVI. Of the Freedom of Wit and Humour and their Value as a Test of Rectitude and Truth XVII. Waking Dreams XVIII. Of the Disstinctions on which we Act in Human Life XIX. Of the Categories XX. Of the Disstinctions on which it is the Lot of Man to Deliberate XXI. Of the Intellectual System XXII. Of the Sciences of Which the Subject is Mind XXIII. Of Good and Evil Perfection and Defect XXIV. Of the 1st Law of Living Nature Preserve Thyself XXV. Of the Principle of Moral Estimation. A Discourse Between David Hume, Robert Clerk and Adam Smith 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 Conceptive Cognitive and Spontaneous XXXII. Characteristics of Mans Nature Appendix A: Essay and Fragments not included in Dr Lee's Collection Appendix B: On the Reception of Ferguson's Works Appendix C: Letters from and to Adam Ferguson List of Page and Folio Numbers Index of Names, Subjects and Works Cited

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Robin C Dix (Author)