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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... develop a genuine Science of Man based on the observation of human nature and human history; a science which would ... developed as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics (and later of Moral Philosophy) at Glasgow between 1751 and 1764 ...
... 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 thinking and which he had ...
... Developing and perfecting his Glasgow lectures on jurisprudence and on the arts and sciences , absorbing them into the intellectual framework of the systems he had developed in the Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations ...
... developed into two of the treatises that were projected but never completed . These lecture notes are transforming our understanding of Smith's philosophy . They help us to relate the social theory and the ... develop philosophical accounts.
An Enlightened Life Nicholas Phillipson. and Pufendorf, who had set out to develop philosophical accounts of the principles of law and government which would be of use to the rulers of modern Europe. So there is still biographical work ...
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 | |