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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... thinking more than they may have realized. It was from them that I came to learn that for many intelligent students ... thinking on the move at an important moment in its development. At the same time, my thinking about Smith , the ...
An Enlightened Life Nicholas Phillipson. thinking about Smith , the Scottish Enlightenment and much else besides was being refreshed , as it has been for more than twenty years , by John Pocock and Istvan Hont . My debts to them are not ...
... thinking and which he had learned to admire as a student at Glasgow studying mathematics , natural science and the Stoics . It was a quality he associated with the French and found lacking in the English . As he put it in.
... thinking about the formation of the human personality and the progress of society . They elaborate Smith's thinking about the ways in which self and society are shaped by the distribution of property and the systems of law and ...
... thinking about the progress of society in a commercial state without thinking of Kirkcaldy , Fife and the activities of energetic and ambitious incomers like the Oswalds , the St Clairs and the Adams ; and although he never explicitly ...
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 | |