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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... Hume 4. Edinburgh's Early Enlightenment 5. Smith's Edinburgh Lectures : a Conjectural History 6. Professor of Moral ... Hume's Death 13. Last Years in Edinburgh 1778-90 Epilogue Notes and Sources Bibliography of Works Cited Index List of.
... Hume's Tomb Canongate Church Canongate St John's St Episcopal Royal Chapel Surgeons Hall Infirmary Calton Hill EDINBURGH , c . 1776 2 David Hume's. SEE BELOW 1 Andrew's Square Royal Exchange- and Customs House North Bridge EDINBURGH , c ...
... The character of a man is never very striking. Calton Hill EDINBURGH , c . 1776 2 David Hume's Tomb Canongate Church - Panmure House 1/4 mile Canongate Episcopal Chapel -Surgeons ' Royal Hall Infirmary 47 Holyrood C House Arthur's Seat.
... Hume's publisher in 1776 that he disapproved of the plan to publish some of his old friend's correspondence because ... Hume or a Boswell, a Voltaire or a Diderot, of a man, in other words, who loved correspondence for its own sake and ...
... Hume's friends and patrons , who controlled the burgh of Dysart and much of the politics of south Fife , and with the Fergusons of Raith , whose pretty and improved estate butted onto the burgh . They were close neighbours of one of the ...
Contents
1695 | |
1699 | |
1709 | |
1719 | |
1741 | |
Oxford and David Hume | |
Edinburghs Early Enlightenment | |
a Conjectural History | |
Smith and the Duke of Buccleuch in Europe 17646 | |
London Kirkcaldy and the Making of the Wealth of Nations 176676 | |
The Wealth of Nations and Smiths Very violent attack upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain | |
Humes Death | |
Last Years in Edinburgh 177890 | |
Epilogue | |
Notes and Sources | |
Bibliography of Works Cited | |
Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow 1 17519 | |
The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Civilizing Powers of Commerce | |
Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow 2 175963 | |
Index | |