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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... portrait by Thomas Gainsborough. (The Trustees of the 9th Duke of Buccleuch's Chattels Fund) 18. David Hume, portrait by Louis Carrogis. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery) 19. Vue de la Ville de Genève prise du Lac from Tableau de la ...
... Portraits and Character Etchings (Edinburgh, 1842). (Edinburgh University Library) 27. Margaret Douglas, Mother of Adam Smith, portrait attributed to Conrad Metz. (Collection of Rory Cunningham) 28. 'Lord Rockville, Dr Adam Smith and ...
... Portraits and Character Etchings ( Edinburgh 1842 ) . ( Edinburgh University Library ) page 91 : Notes of Dr. Smith's Rhetorick Lectures [ 1762-3 ] . Lecture 3 ' Of the origin and progress of language ' . ( Glasgow University Library MS ...
... portrait of professors and philosophers as the custodians of the liberties of modern Britain was one with which Hutcheson sympathized and one which would attract Smith profoundly . Hutcheson quickly established himself as a reforming ...
... portrait of the moderate Presbyterian minister which nicely catches the elements of the civic personality that Glasgow's Molesworthians set out to inculcate in lay as well as clerical students . The modern minister , Leechman observed ...
Contents
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1709 | |
1719 | |
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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 | |