Adam Smith: An Enlightened LifeThis fascinating intellectual biography of Adam Smith dramatically rewrites the economist’s life and offers new insight into his iconic concepts The great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (1723–90) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics. 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 biography shows the extent to which Smith's great works, The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of one of the most ambitious projects of the Euruopean Enlightenment, a grand “Science of Man" that would encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics, and which was only half complete on Smith’s death in 1790.Nick Phillipson reconstructs Smith’s intellectual ancestry and shows what Smith took from, and what he gave to, in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh as they entered the great years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all he explains how far Smith’s ideas developed in dialogue with those of his closest friend, the other titan of the age, David Hume. |
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... Glasgow University and at Balliol College, Oxford. He had laid the foundations of his own system in the lectures and papers he delivered in Edinburgh in 1748-51 and developed as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics (and later of Moral ...
... Glasgow University and at Balliol College, Oxford. He had laid the foundations of his own system in the lectures and papers he delivered in Edinburgh in 1748-51 and developed as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics (and later of Moral ...
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... 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, reviewing once again the ...
... 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, reviewing once again the ...
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... Glasgow away from the social and political worlds that generate the materials upon which biographies generally rely, content to spend his life with the only woman who mattered, his mother. How then is Smith's biography to be written ...
... Glasgow away from the social and political worlds that generate the materials upon which biographies generally rely, content to spend his life with the only woman who mattered, his mother. How then is Smith's biography to be written ...
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Nicholas T. Phillipson. political systems of the ancient and modern world. Eventually he was to develop an analysis of his own on very different principles. 2 Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis Hutches0n's Enlightenment Smith left.
Nicholas T. Phillipson. political systems of the ancient and modern world. Eventually he was to develop an analysis of his own on very different principles. 2 Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis Hutches0n's Enlightenment Smith left.
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Nicholas T. Phillipson. 2. Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis Hutches0n's Enlightenment Smith left school in the summer of 1737 and matriculated at Glasgow University in October. He was fourteen. He spent the next nine years at ...
Nicholas T. Phillipson. 2. Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis Hutches0n's Enlightenment Smith left school in the summer of 1737 and matriculated at Glasgow University in October. He was fourteen. He spent the next nine years at ...
Contents
1699 | |
1703 | |
1707 | |
1717 | |
1737 | |
4Edinburghs Early Enlightenment | |
a Conjectural History | |
9Smith and the Duke of Buccleuchin Europe 17646 | |
10London Kirkcaldy and the Making of theWealth of Nations 176676 | |
11The Wealth of Nations andSmiths Very violent attack upon the whole commercialsystem of Great Britain | |
12Humes Death | |
13Last Years in Edinburgh 177890 | |
Epilogue | |
Notes and Sources | |
Bibliography of Works Cited | |
6Professor of Moral Philosophyat Glasgow 1 17519 | |
7The Theory of Moral Sentimentsand the Civilizing Powersof Commerce | |
8Professor of Moral Philosophyat Glasgow 2 175963 | |
Index | |
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