On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical CompanionPrinceton University Press, 10/01/2009 - 352 páginas Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet until now there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Wealth of Nations. Samuel Fleischacker suggests that Smith's vastly influential treatise on economics can be better understood if placed in the light of his epistemology, philosophy of science, and moral theory. He lays out the relevance of these aspects of Smith's thought to specific themes in the Wealth of Nations, arguing, among other things, that Smith regards social science as an extension of common sense rather than as a discipline to be approached mathematically, that he has moral as well as pragmatic reasons for approving of capitalism, and that he has an unusually strong belief in human equality that leads him to anticipate, if not quite endorse, the modern doctrine of distributive justice. |
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... criticizes them where, by his lights, they fail. This is an excellent example of the philo- sophical history of philosophy. Philosophers tend to bring all ideas into the present tense, to look at each other's work as if the author were ...
... criticizes the effectiveness of militias vis-`a-vis standing armies, but a later section of that chapter concedes that militias serve some useful pur- poses. It also has a section on education that criticizes public universities but ...
... criticizes several philosophical theories of morality for not attending properly to the way moral sentiments are actually experienced (TMS 89, 291–3, 303) and condemns those entranced by “the love of system” (185, 232–4); and in WN he ...
... criticizes many aspects of our ordinary moral attitudes in TMS and who devotes WN to a thoroughgoing critique of the standard views of political economy in his day (and of many contemporary institutions, from the laws of settlement to ...
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9780691123905_6CH5 | 84 |
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9780691123905_14NOT | 283 |
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