İSKOÇ AYDINLANMA FİLOZOFU ADAM FERGUSON’A GÖRE İLERLEME DÜŞÜNCESİ
THE IDEA OF PROGRESS ACCORDING TO SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHER ADAM FERGUSON

Summary/Abstract: The development process of human beings from the day they emerged until today has been a subject of curiosity for science and philosophy. With the Reformation, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the modernization process, the adventure of humanity has gained more importance and has become a problem that scientists and philosophers have been pondering on. At this point, the idea of progress has been an important thesis put forward by modern Western thought. The concept of progress has become one of the fundamental concepts in the history of philosophy and especially in the philosophy of history. Progress has been conceived and put forward as a continuous development, change and improvement of civilizations, societies and people towards the future. During the Enlightenment, which represents an important period in the history of philosophy, the subject of progress was also given importance. The Scottish Enlightenment, one of the Enlightenment processes, and Adam Ferguson, an important representative of it, also dealt with the process of progress and tried to understand and make sense of this concept with the dynamics of the society in which he lived. This study aims to analyze Adam Ferguson's idea of progress from a philosophical perspective in the context of its relationship with morality and politics.

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