Open AccessEntre Refinamento e Civilização
Author(s) -
Pedro Paulo Pimenta
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
doispontos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-7412
pISSN - 1807-3883
DOI - 10.5380/dp.v8i1.28123
Subject(s) - enlightenment , humanities , philosophy , civilization , scope (computer science) , reading (process) , political science , theology , law , linguistics , computer science , programming language
The aim of the article is to study the scope of the notion of civilization as it occurs in Hume's reading of Ferguson's Essay on history of civil society . The importance of the topic in the philosophy of the Enlightenment is such that the very word was coined in the 18 th Century.
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