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Iain McDaniel
Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment [EPUB ebook]
The Roman Past and Europe’s Future

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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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Formato EPUB ● Páginas 288 ● ISBN 9780674075269 ● Editorial Harvard University Press ● Publicado 2014 ● Descargable 6 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2629540 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM

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