 Of the questions relating to the state of nature ...We speak of art as distinguished from nature; but art itself is natural to man. He is in some measure the artificer of his own frame, as well as his fortune, and is destined, from the first age of his...  An Essay on the History of Civil Society - Page 10de Adam Ferguson - 1809 - 464 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Michel Foucault - 1991 - 322 pages
...of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan." Like Hume's, Ferguson's man is 'destined from the first age of his being to invent and contrive'. Both primitive cottage and palace are equally distant from any mythical state of nature and are in... | |
 | Ulrich Witt - 1992 - 204 pages
...put it in his 1767 "Essay on the History of Civil Society" i 1980. 61: "1Man1 ... is destined. Irom the first age of his being. to invent and contrive. He applies the petition for scarce resources. But they can discourage the willingness to try out new things, they... | |
 | Joseph Mali - 2002 - 296 pages
...considered man as being a widely 'artistic' rather than narrowly 'rationalistic' creature, one that is 'destined from the first age of his being to invent and to contrive'. 15 As we shall see, in his theory of civilization Vico too emphasized the 'poetic' rather... | |
 | Anthony Pagden - 1993 - 228 pages
...itself,' the Scottish social theorist Adam Ferguson was later to observe, 'is natural to man ... he is destined from the first age of his being to invent and to contrive'.12 Europeans are also unusual in their belief that to transform nature in this way is... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...but art itself is natural to man. He is in some measure the artificer of his own frame, as well as his fortune, and is destined, from the first age of...subject, and he carries this intention wherever he moves, through the streets of the populous city, or the wilds of the forest. While he appears equally fitted... | |
 | Tibor R. Machan - 1998 - 132 pages
...but art itself is natural to man. He is in some measure the artificer of his own frame, as well as his fortune, and is destined, from the first age of his being, to invent and contrive ... whether his motions be rapid or slow, the scenes of human affairs perpetually change in his management:... | |
 | C. Mantzavinos, Chrysostomos Mantzavinos - 2004 - 336 pages
...formulation (1767/1966, p. 6): "He [man] is in some measure the artificer of his own frame, as well as his fortune, and is destined, from the first age of...nearly the same part in very different scenes. He would he always improving on his subject, and he carries this intention where-ever he moves, through the... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pages
...but art itself is natural to man. He is in some measure the artificer of his own frame, as well as his fortune, and is destined, from the first age of...subject, and he carries this intention wherever he moves, through the streets of the populous city, or the wilds of the forest. (Essay, Part I, Section 1 , 'Of... | |
 | Sankar Muthu - 2009 - 368 pages
...but art itself is natural to man. He is in some measure the artificer of his own frame, as well as his fortune, and is destined, from the first age of his being, to invent and contrive. . . . If we are asked therefore. Where the state of nature is to be found? we may answer, It is here;... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 pages
...measure the artificer ol his own frame, as well as his fortune, and is destined, from the first age ol his being, to invent and contrive. He applies the same talents to a varietv of purposes, and acts nearly the same part in verv diflerent scenes. He would be alwavs improving... | |
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