The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson | Robin C Dix | Taylor & Francis eBoo

ABSTRACT

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter I|9 pages

Of Perfection and Happiness a

chapter II|6 pages

What may be Affirmed or Apprehended of the Supreme Creative Being a

chapter III|13 pages

Of History and Its Appropriate Stile a

chapter IV|14 pages

Of Statesmen and Warriours a 1

chapter V|24 pages

An Excursion in the Highlands: Discourse on Various Subjects a

chapter VI|5 pages

Of Happiness and Merit a 1

chapter VII|14 pages

Distinction of Value and its Source in Existence a

chapter VIII|5 pages

Of the Compar[a]tive Forms of being a

chapter IX|5 pages

Reputed Pleasures of Imagination a

chapter X|5 pages

Cognitutem 1 with the [ ] a of Wisdom b

chapter XI|5 pages

Of the Categories or Constituents of Discourse and Fabric of Thought a

chapter XII|5 pages

Of the Distinctions Which Mankind Experience or Apprehend in the Nature of Things to Direct Them in What They Pursue or Avoid a

chapter XIII|11 pages

Of Cause and Effect/ ends and Means/Order Combination and/Design a

chapter XIV|9 pages

Of the French Revolution with its Actual and Still Impending Consequences in Europe a

chapter XV|10 pages

Of the Separation of Departments Professions and Tasks Resulting from the Progress of Arts in Societv a 1

chapter XVI|5 pages

Of the Freedom of Wit and Humour and their Value as a Test of Rectitude and Truth a 1

chapter XVII|6 pages

Waking Dreams a

chapter XVIII|4 pages

Of the Disstinctions on Which We Act in Human Life a 1

chapter XIX|7 pages

Of the Categories a

chapter XX|5 pages

Of the Disstinctions on Which it is the Lot of Man to Deliberate a 1

chapter XXI|6 pages

Of the Intellectual System a

chapter XXII|5 pages

Of the Sciences of Which the Subject is Mind a

chapter XXIII|8 pages

Of Good and Evil Perfection and Defect a

chapter XXIV|3 pages

Of the 1st Law of Living Nature Preserve Thyself a 1

chapter XXV|9 pages

OF the Principle of Moral Estimation. A Discourse Between David Hume, Robert Clerk and Adam Smith a

chapter XXVI|3 pages

Of Liberty and Necessity a

chapter XXVII|22 pages

Of the Things that are or May Be a

chapter XXVIII|5 pages

Of Nature and Art a

chapter XXIX|6 pages

The Different Aspects of Moral Science a

chapter XXX|4 pages

Of the Laws of Nature in the Department of Active Man a

chapter XXXI|8 pages

OF the Intellectual or Conscious Powers Conceptive Cognitive and Spontaneous a

chapter XXXII|14 pages

Characteristics of Mans Nature a