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PHILOSOPHER

Adam Ferguson

1723 - 1816

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Adam Ferguson, (Scottish Gaelic: Adhamh MacFhearghais), also known as Ferguson of Raith (1 July N.S. /20 June O.S. 1723 – 22 February 1816), was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment. Ferguson was sympathetic to traditional societies, such as the Highlands, for producing courage and loyalty. He criticized commercial society as making men weak, dishonourable and unconcerned for their community. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Ferguson has received more than 255,175 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Adam Ferguson is the 457th most popular philosopher (up from 492nd in 2019), the 956th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,034th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 32

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Adam Ferguson ranks 457 out of 1,081Before him are Ibn al-Rawandi, Petrus Ramus, Abul A'la Maududi, Ernst Troeltsch, Phaedo of Elis, and Norberto Bobbio. After him are Willard Van Orman Quine, Nelson Goodman, Pierre Duhem, Dhul-Nun al-Misri, Leo Strauss, and George Pachymeres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Adam Ferguson ranks 7Before him are Adam Smith, Baron d'Holbach, Frederick V of Denmark, Joshua Reynolds, Carl Friedrich Abel, and Giovanni Antonio Scopoli. After him are Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, and Tobias Mayer. Among people deceased in 1816, Adam Ferguson ranks 7Before him are Maria I of Portugal, Giovanni Paisiello, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Pierre Augereau, Francisco de Miranda, and Frederick I of Württemberg. After him are Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Gavrila Derzhavin, Roger Ducos, Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Adam Ferguson ranks 956 out of 7,765Before him are John Hawkwood (1320), Michael Palin (1943), Ian McDiarmid (1944), Ron Dennis (1947), Michael Smith (1932), and William Bligh (1754). After him are E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Keith Emerson (1944), Duncan Edwards (1936), Reginald Pole (1500), Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941), and Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Adam Ferguson ranks 27Before him are J. L. Austin (1911), H. L. A. Hart (1907), John of Salisbury (1110), Francis Hutcheson (1694), Paul Grice (1913), and Alan Watts (1915). After him are Roger Scruton (1944), Alasdair MacIntyre (1929), A. J. Ayer (1910), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), Antony Flew (1923), and Thomas Reid (1710).