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Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) was a leading light of the Scottish Enlightenment and a contemporary of Adam Smith and David Hume, with whom he was also friends. He was a highly respected and widely read figure in his day and was influential in Britain and America as well as Europe where his publications were translated into all the principal languages. His two most important works were An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) and Principles of Moral and Political Science (1792).
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Hill, L. (2023). Ferguson, Adam. In: Zanetti, G., Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Studies in the History of Law and Justice, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19546-4_15
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