%0 Journal Article %T Entre Refinamento e Civiliza o %A Pedro Paulo G Pimenta %J DoisPontos %D 2011 %I Universidade Federal do Paran¨¢, Universidade Federal de S?o Carlos %X The aim of the article is to study the scope of the notion of civilization as it occurs in Hume's reading of Ferguson's Essay on history of civil society. The importance of the topic in the philosophy of the Enlightenment is such that the very word was coined in the 18th Century. %K Civilization %K Society %K Politeness %K Language %K Imagination %K Refinement %U http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/doispontos/article/view/28123/18684