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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... City and Castle of. 4. The Colledge of Glasgow ( early eighteenth century ) , by or after John Slezer , Theatrum Scotiae ( 1693 ) . ( Hunterian Art Gallery , University of Glasgow ) 5. Balliol College , Oxford , from D. Loggan , Oxonia ...
An Enlightened Life Nicholas Phillipson. 10. A General View of the City and Castle of Edinburgh, the Capital of Scotland (anon., 1765). (Courtesy Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services – Edinburgh Room) 11. Henry Home, Lord ...
... City Libraries and Information Services – Edinburgh Room) 26. 'The Philosophers', by John Kay, from A Series of Original Portraits and Character Etchings (Edinburgh, 1842). (Edinburgh University Library) 27. Margaret Douglas, Mother of ...
... city life, salon culture and even, one suspects, the company of his friends, and it was only after the publication of the Wealth of Nations in 1776, when he was fifty-three, that he began to generate the gossip and table-talk which ...
... city , London . Indeed , a large part of his enduring appeal lay in the fact that his 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 ...
Contents
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1709 | |
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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 | |