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Article: Adam Ferguson's aesthetic idea of community spirit.(Critical essay)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
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- June 22, 2008
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Critical commentary on the work of Adam Ferguson generally places him in the civic tradition of political philosophy. To this tradition, whose major British phase unfolded in the hundred years or so preceding him, Ferguson owes many of his major themes and terms: his alignment of virtue with public spirit and of commerce with corruption, his concept of mixed government, his predilection for republican Rome and Sparta, his enthusiasm for a militarized, self-defending general public. British authors in the civic tradition primarily aimed to reconcile the idea of virtue, which they conceived of in ascetic, Spartan terms, with the luxurious expansion of commerce that dominated ...
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