Adam Ferguson电子书

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An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

PART I: Of the General Characteristics of Human Nature

Section I: Of the question relating to the State of Nature

Section II: Of the principles of Self-preservation

Section III: Of the principles of Union among Mankind

Section IV: Of the principles of War and Dissension

Section VII: Of Happiness

Section VIII: The same subject continued

PART II: Of the History of Rude Nations

Section II: Of Rude Nations prior to the Establishment of Property

Section III: Of Rude Nations under the Impressions of Property and Interest

PART III: Of the History of Policy and Arts

Section II: The History of Subordination

Section VI: Of Civil Liberty

PART IV: Of the Consequences that result from the Advancement of Civil and Commercial Arts

Section I: Of the Separation of Arts and Professions

Section III: Of the Manners of Polished and Commercial Nations

PART V: Of the Decline of Nations

Section III: Of Relaxations in the National Spirit incident to Polished Nations

PART VI: Of Corruption And Political Slavery

Section III: Of the Corruption incident to Polished Nations

Section IV: The same subject continued

Institutes of Moral Philosophy (1769)

INTRODUCTION

Section I: Of Knowledge in general

Section II: Of Science

Section III: Of the laws of Nature

Section IV: Of Theory

Section V: Of Moral Philosophy

Section VI: Of Pneumatics

PART III: Of the Knowledge of God

Chapter I: Of the Being of God

Chapter II: Of the Attributes of God

Chapter III: Of the belief of the Immortality of the Human Soul, as founded in Principles of Religion

History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic (1783)

BOOK III

Chapter IV: Character of the Times; Philosophy

Principles of Moral and Political Science (1792)

VOLUME 1

Introduction

Part I, Chapter II: Of Mind or the Characteristics of Intelligence

Section III: Of the Actual Sources of Knowledge and Measures of Evidence

Section IV: Of the Laws or Canons of Evidence

Part I, Chapter III: Of Man’s Progressive Nature

Section II: Of the Principles of Progression in Human Nature

Section III: Of Habit in general

Section IV: Of Habits of Thinking

Section V: Of Habit, as it affects the Inclinations of Men; and their Capacity of Enjoyment or Suffering

Section VIII: Of Ambition, or the Desire of something higher than is possessed at present

VOLUME II

Part II, Chapter I: Of the Specific Good Incident to Human Nature

Section III: Of Beauty and Deformity, Excellence and Defect

Section IV: Of Virtue and Vice

Part II, Chapter II: Of the Fundamental Law of Morality, its Immediate Applications and Sanctions

SECTION III: Of the Difficulty which has arisen in accounting for Moral Approbation

Part II, Chapter III: Of Jurisprudence of Compulsory Law

Section I: Of the Principle of Compulsory Law

Section IV: Of the general Titles under which the Rights of Men may be classed

Section V: Of Rights Original

Section VI: Of Rights Adventitious

Section VII: Of the different Sources of Adventitious Rights

Section VIII: Of Occupancy, and the Species of Right that may result from it

Section IX: Of Labor, and the Species of Right that results from it

Manuscript Essay

Of the Principle of Moral Estimation: A Discourse between David Hume, Robert Clerk, and Adam Smith

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