Political Vanity
Adam Ferguson on the Moral Tensions of Early Capitalism
Description:... Political Vanity
aims to illuminate the central debates over the historical, moral, and
political legitimacy of market capitalism by engaging central theorists of the
Scottish Enlightenment, in particular the philosopher and sociologist Adam
Ferguson. Ferguson was a contemporary of philosophers and economists David Hume
and Adam Smith, and actively questioned many of the pillars of early capitalism
on theological grounds.
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