\Institutes of Moral Philosophy\: for the use of students in the College of Edinburgh, by Adam Ferguson: translation, introduction and notes

Author(s)

Eveline Campos Hauck

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2014-01-20

Examining board members

Marcio Suzuki; Maria Isabel de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi; Pedro Paulo Garrido Pimenta

• Advisor: Marcio Suzuki

Abstract

This work is a translation of the Institutes of Moral Philosophy: for the use of students in the College of Edinburgh, by Adam Ferguson. The lessons were published in 1769 in order to be used as a manual of moral philosophy, thus, it comprises the main concepts of the British philosophy. In the introduction, we present the general themes discussed by Ferguson in An essay on the history of civil society (1767) and in the Institutes, especially with regard to the analysis of mans nature to the foundation of morality . With this translation of the Institutes, we intend to bring to the Portuguese an important text of the Enlightenment and briefly indicate Ferguson\'s influence on the thought of Friedrich Schiller, author of The aesthetic education of man, with the approach of Fergusons concepts of propensity and play and Schillers concept of play drive (Spieltrieb). For this reason, we have also included, in the form of notes, excerpts from Christian Garves comments, whose translation of the Institutes of 1772 was at the time the reading mediation of the Scottish authors in German intellectual circles. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/05397-0 - Adam Ferguson and the "Institutes of Moral Philosophy"
• Grantee: Eveline Campos Hauck
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master