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Adam Ferguson . Filósofo, científico social e historiador de la Ilustración escocesa. Se le considera el padre de la sociología moderna.

Recibió las primeras enseñanzas en la escuela parroquial de Logierait y la escuela de gramática de Perth. Posteriormente, Ferguson realizó estudios en la Universidad de Edimburgo y la Universidad de St. Andrews. En 1745, debido a sus conocimientos de lengua gaélica, obtuvo el nombramiento como capellán adjunto del 43º Regimiento , aunque no había completado los necesarios seis años de estudios teológicos.

Sigue siendo un tema de debate en cuanto a si, en la batalla de Fontenoy , Ferguson, luchó en las filas durante todo el día, y se negó a abandonar el campo, a pesar de la orden de hacerlo por su coronel. Sin embargo, ciertamente lo hizo bien, convirtiéndose en capellán principal en 1746. Él continuó unido al regimiento, hasta 1754, cuando, decepcionado por no obtener la vida, dejó el clero y decidió dedicarse a la literatura.

Después de residir en Leipzig por un tiempo, regresó a Edimburgo, donde en enero de 1757 sucedió a David Hume como bibliotecario de la Facultad de Derecho , pero pronto renunció a este cargo para convertirse en tutor de la familia del conde de Bute . En 1759, Ferguson se convirtió en profesor de filosofía natural en la Universidad de Edimburgo, y en 1764 fue trasladado a la cátedra de "neumáticos" y a la de "filosofía moral."[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 20. junio 1723 – 22. febrero 1816
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“Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.”

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Adam Ferguson libro An Essay on the History of Civil Society

PART III, SECTION I.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

“In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.”

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PART IV, SECTION II.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

“Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.”

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PART I, SECTION III.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

“The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.”

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PART I, SECTION I.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

“Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.”

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PART I, SECTION II.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

“…if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.”

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PART III, SECTION I.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

“We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.”

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PART I, SECTION IV.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

“The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.”

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PART II, SECTION I.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

“Theory consists in referring particular operations to the principles, or general laws, under which they are comprehended; or in referring particular effects to the causes from which they proceed.”

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Adam Ferguson

Introduction, Section IV, Of Theory, p. 7.
Institutes of Moral Philosophy (1769)

“Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.”

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PART III, SECTION II.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

“Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform”

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PART I, SECTION V.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)