CORDIS Project
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This project conducts a comparative study of the philosophical views of Rousseau and Ferguson on the impact of commercial society on civic virtues. It aims to contribute to the understanding of the republican tradition and its relationship with natural law.
The project’s key assumption is that Rousseau and Ferguson offer a distinctive “partisan-republican” perspective.
More strongly than fellow-republicans like Montesquieu, Hume and Smith, they focus on commercial society’s corrupting effects, concluding that the only remedy is a recovery of traditional civic virtues.Objectives1.
The project fills a major lacuna in Enlightenment historiography: the strong kinship between Ferguson and Rousseau is evident, but no sustained comparative study exists. 2…
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