Article ID: CBB206800727

"No distinction of Black or Fair": The Natural History of Race in Adam Ferguson's Lectures on Moral Philosophy (2021)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Smith, Craig
Morrison, Amie
Balogh, Piroska
Jared Holley
Mills, R. J. W.
Wood, Paul B.
Concepts
Moral philosophy
Natural history
Philosophy
Science and society
Conservation of natural resources
Metaphysics
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
Places
Scotland
England
France
Great Britain
Edinburgh
New Zealand
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