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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... Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 17 January 1763 Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was published on 9 March 1776. Although David Hume thought that 'it requires too much thought' to reach a ...
... lectures and papers he delivered in Edinburgh in 1748–51 and developed as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics (and ... language, rhetoric, morals, jurisprudence, government, the fine arts and astronomy, subjects which, his friend and ...
... lectures had begun to attract world- wide attention and it was probably inevitable that sets of student notes would ... rhetoric and the lectures on jurisprudence he gave in 1762-3 . Neither is quite complete , though both are ...
... language. In the Lectures on Rhetoric he reminded his students that texts were rhetorical performances which could be studied for the light they threw on an author's methods of persuasion and on the character he wished to present to his ...
... lectures on rhetoric and on jurisprudence that were jurisprudence that were to establish his intellectual credentials and to play an important part in launching his career . ― The groundwork for Smith's philosophical career could not ...
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 | |