Adam Smith: An Enlightened LifeAdam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist, and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. This book, by one of the leading scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, shows the extent to which The Wealth of Nations and Smith's other great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand 'Science of Man', one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, which was to encompass law, history and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. |
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... essays on philosophical subjects that Smith seems to have tinkered with for most of his professional life. These were published posthumously by his executors and largely forgotten. As Stewart commented, 'he seems to have wished that no ...
... essays.23 Smith's signed but undated copy of a 1670 edition of the Enchiridion bound with the Tabula of Cebes is generally assumed to have been bought for use at university, but it could equally well have been acquired a year or two ...
... essays provided young men and women from the provinces with their first view of the mightiest city in the kingdom, a city which dazzled by virtue of its wealth, power and glamour. His essays allowed his readers to glimpse life as it was ...
... as the essential skill on which sociability, success and personal happiness depends. Addison's charming and deceptively simple moral essays had a special value. They gave Smith his first glimpse of the modern commercial city as.
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Contents
The College | |
Professors and their Patron | |
DAVID HUME | |
EDINBURGH | |
SMITH AND THE FRENCH MORALISTS | |
SMITHS GLASGOW 175163 | |
HENRY 3rd DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH | |
DAVID HUME IN PARIS 1764 | |
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12 | |
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Epilogue | |
KIRKCALDY | |
GENEVA 1765 | |
PARIS 17656 | |
SMITH IN LONDON | |
SMITH IN EDINBURGH 177890 | |
MARGARET SMITH ADAM SMITHS MOTHER | |
ADAM SMITH COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS | |
SMITHS GRAVE IN THE CANONGATE CHURCHYARD EDINBURGH | |
Notes and Sources | |
Bibliography of Works Cited | |
Index | |