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Adam Ferguson on human nature and enlightened governance
In Kyriakos N. Demetriou & Antis Loizides (eds.), Scientific Statesmanship, Governance and the History of Political Philosophy. pp. 137-151 (2015)
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An account, based principally on Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society, of his concept of enlightened governance, and of the relation between that concept and his concept of human nature.Links
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