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Ethics
In his ethical system Ferguson treats man as a social being illustrating his doctrines by political examples. His membership of The Poker Club is recorded in its minute book of 1776. ) – 22 February 1816) was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment.

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