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Iain McDaniel
Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment [EPUB ebook]
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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.

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Format EPUB ● Seiten 288 ● ISBN 9780674075269 ● Verlag Harvard University Press ● Erscheinungsjahr 2014 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2629540 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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