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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... curriculum . The school was to provide a classical education based on translation and exposition so as to ' exercise [ the pupils ' ] judgements , to teach them by degrees to spell rightly , to write good write [ handwriting ] , good ...
... curriculum strongly suggests that his teaching had a solid ethical core ; the texts used in similar avant - garde classical schools in Scotland suggest that it was probably he who introduced Smith to the classical moralists and their ...
... curriculum and the teaching of two of the most charismatic and intellectually creative university professors in northern Europe ― Robert Simson , Professor of Mathematics , and Francis Hutcheson Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis ...
... After the re-establishment of Presbyterianism in 1638 and in 1690, the Scottish universities were purged of Episcopalians and an attempt was made to reconstruct the philosophy curriculum, on which the entire system of.
... curriculum in building a Godly state. Nor, as we shall see, was this message lost on their enemies. For one of the oddest paradoxes in the history of the university in Glasgow, this most strictly Presbyterian of cities, was that it ...
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 | |