An Introduction to the Relationship between Commerce and Virtue in Adam Ferguson
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Despite being considered one of the most important authors in liberal tradition, the thought of Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) has not been systematically developed today. This article analyses the thought of one of the leading thinkers of what has come to be known in the academic literature as the Scottish Enlightenment. Ferguson, through his multidisciplinary studies, succeeded in developing a complex and comprehensive theory of the origin and purpose of policity in man. Anchored in classical thought, mainly Scotic and Aristotelian theory, Ferguson rejects any explanation of the origin of society in terms of the social contract or any other fiction and asserts that man is a political being, naturally sociable for reasons that are intrinsic to this personality.
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