LEADER 04072nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910452633403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-07528-5 010 $a0-674-07526-9 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674075269 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038974 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25018213 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000834821 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11412031 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834821 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10982141 035 $a(PQKB)11419963 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301240 035 $a(DE-B1597)209845 035 $a(OCoLC)828869697 035 $a(OCoLC)979629339 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674075269 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301240 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10664496 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038974 100 $a20120822d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAdam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment $b[electronic resource] $ethe Roman past and Europe's future /$fIain McDaniel 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (x,) 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-674-07296-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Montesquieu and the Unfree Republic -- $t2 Military Government and Empire in the Scottish Enlightenment -- $t3 Ferguson and the Moral Foundations of Civil Society -- $t4 Trajectories of the Modern Commercial State -- $t5 Britain's Future in a Roman Mirror -- $t6 Civil- Military Union and the Modern State -- $t7 Revolution and Modern Republicanism -- $tConclusion -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aAlthough overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe's growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome's lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression-a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon. As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson's skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions. 606 $aEnlightenment$zScotland 606 $aRepublicanism$zRome$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government 607 $aRome$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnlightenment 615 0$aRepublicanism$xHistory. 676 $a321.8/6 700 $aMcDaniel$b Iain$f1975-$01031473 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452633403321 996 $aAdam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment$92448878 997 $aUNINA