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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... curriculum . New chairs in Logic and Metaphysics , in Moral Philosophy and in Natural Philosophy were established and the teaching duties of every university professor were carefully defined to prevent jurisdictional squabbles within ...
... curriculum . His was the voice of a new sort of academic philosophy , tolerant in its attitudes to religion , consensually minded in its views about the relationship between the Church and civil society , radical Whig in its attitude to ...
... the young generation ' in what Turnbull described as ' this narrow and bigoted country'.14 The new curriculum , like that of David Miller's school at Kirkcaldy , was to be based on the study of the ancients who , as Molesworth put it , '
... curriculum at the apex of the philosophy curriculum at Glasgow, as the discipline which would teach students preparing to enter Divinity Hall or one of the professions the duties of the Christian citizen. It was a deeply controversial ...
... curriculum was unrivalled in Scotland. Much of this must have been known to Margaret Smith and her intelligent and cultivated Kirkcaldy friends, and it was not in the least surprising that she should have decided that Glasgow was the ...
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 | |