Abstract:

Recent scholarship on the Scottish Enlightenment has emphasized the increasing importance, in the last decades of the eighteenth century, of the concept of race. Yet race was a conceptual, moral, and taxonomic puzzle for Scots intellectuals such as Adam Ferguson (1723-1816). While the influence of Ferguson's published works has received wide scholarly attention, the content of his teaching has not. His surviving moral philosophy lecture notes offer us a window into the development of thought on race at the disciplinary intersections of moral philosophy and natural history, and the crossroads of Edinburgh's curricula and Britain's Empire.

摘要：

最近有关苏格兰启蒙运动的奖学金强调了在十八世纪的最后几十年中种族概念的重要性日益增加。然而，对于亚当·弗格森（Adam Ferguson，1723-1816）等苏格兰知识分子而言，种族是一个概念，道德和分类学上的难题。尽管弗格森发表的著作的影响力受到了学术界的广泛关注，但他的教学内容却没有得到重视。他尚存的道德哲学讲义为我们提供了一个窗口，让我们了解道德哲学与自然历史的学科交汇处以及爱丁堡课程与大不列颠帝国的交汇处的种族思想发展。