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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... condemn human nature entirely. Smith's strongly naturalistic orientation, his belief that moral standards—the very standards we might use to condemn human nature—arise out of human nature itself, leads him instead to try 4 CHAPTER ONE.
A Philosophical Companion Samuel Fleischacker. out of human nature itself, leads him instead to try to understand what ... lead us. A Socratic irony— or, better, what Kierkegaard would later call “humor” as opposed to irony2—can encourage ...
... lead many readers to suppose that Smith considers factory work to be paradigmatic of an advanced division of labor. His real point is precisely the opposite: that advanced econ- omies are marked by a plethora of small, independent ...
... leads to national wealth and greatness, and Book III shows in detail how economies were diverted for centuries from their natural course, and thereby from the wealth they could have achieved, by misguided laws. It is thus no surprise ...
... lead one to question the reliability of common sense, or one can read it, as seems more reasonable given Smith's thorough knowledge of the history of phi- losophy, and of Hume's work in particular, as a sophisticated realization that ...
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