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  • "No distinction of Black or Fair": The Natural History of Race in Adam Ferguson's Lectures on Moral Philosophy

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    Buchan, B
    Sebastiani, S
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    Buchan, Bruce A.
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    Recent scholarship on the Scottish Enlightenment has emphasized the increasing importance, in the last decades of the eighteenth century, of the concept of race. Yet race was a conceptual, moral, and taxonomic puzzle for Scots intellectuals such as Adam Ferguson (1723-1816). While the influence of Ferguson's published works has received wide scholarly attention, the content of his teaching has not. His surviving moral philosophy lecture notes offer us a window into the development of thought on race at the disciplinary intersections of moral philosophy and natural history, and the crossroads of Edinburgh's curricula and ...
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    Recent scholarship on the Scottish Enlightenment has emphasized the increasing importance, in the last decades of the eighteenth century, of the concept of race. Yet race was a conceptual, moral, and taxonomic puzzle for Scots intellectuals such as Adam Ferguson (1723-1816). While the influence of Ferguson's published works has received wide scholarly attention, the content of his teaching has not. His surviving moral philosophy lecture notes offer us a window into the development of thought on race at the disciplinary intersections of moral philosophy and natural history, and the crossroads of Edinburgh's curricula and Britain's Empire.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of the history of ideas
    Volume
    82
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0011
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    Political science
    Historical studies
    History and philosophy of specific fields
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/404618
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