Enlightened histories: civilization, war and the Scottish enlightenment

Buchan, Bruce

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“…My interpretation of this passage contrasts with those of Craig Smith (2014) andBuchan (2005), who interpret Ferguson's assessment of this mingling exclusively positive.55 Cf. EHCS 4.4, 193.…”

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Alienation in Commercial Society: The Republican Critique of Jean‐Jacques Rousseau and Adam Ferguson

Bijlsma¹

2019

The Southern J of Philosophy

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This article explores the republican critiques of commercial society of Jean‐Jacques Rousseau and Adam Ferguson, focusing on their kindred analyses of social alienation. The joint study of these thinkers reveals a Rousseauean strand of eighteenth‐century republicanism that effectively combined a traditional (yet idiosyncratic) Stoic view of human flourishing with an innovative, proto‐sociological analysis and critique of quintessentially modern social phenomena. Rousseau and Ferguson regard alienation as a loss of wholeness, both in humans individually and in their relations to their (social) surroundings. The article addresses two specific aspects of alienation in commercial society as the two thinkers see it. The first aspect concerns the insincerity underpinning the new moral vocabulary of polite sociability; the second aspect concerns the division of labor. According to Rousseau and Ferguson, this division threatens true human flourishing as well as political liberty. Finally, the conservative dimension of their republican solutions for overcoming alienation and bolstering liberty is considered.

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Alienation in Commercial Society: The Republican Critique of Jean‐Jacques Rousseau and Adam Ferguson

Bijlsma¹

2019

The Southern J of Philosophy

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“…Many have argued that the Australian colonial treatment of Indigenous Australians is in the past and that contemporary society and governments should not be held responsible for past actions or their current influences. However, Gordimer (2003, p. 32) points out that the coloniser and his descendants have created an inherited privilege through colonisation and have justified this situation by asserting that they brought enlightenment to Indigenous people, a claim that is seriously challenged (Buchan, 2005). These actions have continued in various guises, often involving social workers, and have furthered the dispossession of Aboriginal people and, thus, can be understood as colonial.…”

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Building Indigenous Australian Social Work

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2008

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An Indigenous social work guided by Indigenous Australians' participation and experience that has, at its heart, human rights and social justice is in its infancy in Australia. The present paper continues a discussion on Indigenous Australian social work theory and practice developments being generated by those working in this field. Aspects of this ''praxis'' include recognition of the effects of invasion, colonialism, and paternalistic social policies upon social work practice with Indigenous communities; recognition of the importance of self-determination; contemporary Indigenous and nonIndigenous colleagues working in partnership; the impact of contemporary racist and neocolonialist values; and rethinking contemporary social work values and practices. There is discussion of appropriation and reinterpretation of social work concepts, incorporation of international and local Indigenous theory, and the framing of social work by Indigenous Australians' views and values.Social Work in the context of Australian Indigenous communities and families is a highly contentious matter. Social work has been involved in and has colluded in racist, patronising, and unjust practices. The profession has recognised this, has apologised (Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW), 2004) and has started to seek how to learn from Indigenous Australians and how to educate Indigenous and non-Indigenous social workers to work more appropriately with Indigenous communities and individuals. However, this work is not far advanced (see Briskman,

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“…31 Purchase was favoured because commerce and trade were synonymous with peace, freedom and consent. 32 It was for this reason that Cook had been instructed to obtain Indigenous consent, but what is more important is how he was to obtain it. 33…”

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Traffick of Empire: Trade, Treaty andTerra Nulliusin Australia and North America, 1750–1800

Buchan

2007

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It will be argued in this article that British colonial authorities in Australia employed a framework of concepts, ideas and assumptions then current in European thought in their efforts to translate the difference of the Indigenous inhabitants to the terms of European familiarity. This framework was also buttressed by a previous extensive experience of colonial diplomacy and trade in North America. By drawing on these intellectual and experiential sources, colonisers in Australia sought to represent the Indigenous inhabitants as ‘savage’– lacking their own property rights or sovereignty. Some historians in Australia have focussed most attention on the concepts of legal thought – notably terra nullius– in seeking to explain the colonial dispossession of Indigenous peoples. A more potent if long neglected source for this dispossession, I argue, lies in the ways that Europeans thought about and practiced trade or ‘traffick’.

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Enlightened histories: civilization, war and the Scottish enlightenment

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

Alienation in Commercial Society: The Republican Critique of Jean‐Jacques Rousseau and Adam Ferguson

Alienation in Commercial Society: The Republican Critique of Jean‐Jacques Rousseau and Adam Ferguson

Building Indigenous Australian Social Work

Traffick of Empire: Trade, Treaty andTerra Nulliusin Australia and North America, 1750–1800

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