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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... the day and one of the most important advocates of university reform . Molesworth encouraged Hutcheson to set his theological interests in a wider ideological framework , and to think about the role of university education in a free state .
... interests of liberty and vertue and to reform the taste of 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 ...
... Interest distinct from it , they laid out themselves towards the advancing and promoting the good of it , insomuch that we find the very good Fortune of their Commonwealth often lasted no longer than they did'.15 This gratifying ...
... interests of learning , liberty , religion , virtue and human happiness ' penetrated all of Hutcheson's teaching . In teaching natural theology and moral philosophy , ' when he led [ his students ] from the view of the external world to ...
... interests in the city . And while many better - off students preferred to lodge in the city , they soon discovered that Glasgow's puritan culture discouraged the easy passage between town and gown that was characteristic of the capital ...
Contents
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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 | |