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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... Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Civilizing Powers of Commerce 8. Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow , 2. 1759-63 9. Smith and the Duke of Buccleuch in Europe 1764-6 10. London , Kirkcaldy and the Making of the Wealth of Nations ...
... Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) . ( Edinburgh University Library ) Page 215 : Title page from Adam Smith , An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ) . ( Glasgow University Library ) Acknowledgements ...
... Theory of Moral Sentiments, was more of a living text than the Wealth of Nations, and it was they who helped me to understand why Smith preferred the first book to the second. In planning this book I wanted to write about Smith's life ...
... Theory of Moral Sentiments, a theory which explained how men and women seek to satisfy their moral needs and learn to live at ease with themselves and the world around them, a theory of sociability as well as a theory of ethics ...
... Theory of Moral Sentiments to develop and refine the ethical implications of his theory of sociability . On top of this there was a lifelong love of intellectual systems and the esprit systématique he associated with true philosophical ...
Contents
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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 | |