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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... never considered it from a philosophical angle. Although Smith was a philosopher, no book of this sort has appeared before. Charles Griswold has given us a beautiful study of Smith's entire corpus from a philosophical perspective, and ...
... never fully disappear, hence the odd ambiguity in passages like the remarks on love quoted above. This ironic stance and tone pervade TMS, but show up to a significant extent in WN as well. There are some obviously ironic moments. “The ...
... never be “much affected either by the prodigality or misconduct of individuals” (WN 340–41). But the initial warning against prodigality tends to get quoted without the wider context.6 Part V, chapter i has a section on the military ...
... never guess that it occurs within a context in which Smith is concerned mostly to criticize measures taken in the name of defense.8 From the fame of the “pin factory” example in the beginning of WN, one might also never guess that Smith ...
... never endorses Hume's sceptical arguments, nor constructs any such arguments of his own, and he rarely peeks above or beyond common-life beliefs to remind us of their ultimate insubstantiality from a philo- sophical perspective. Unlike ...
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9780691123905_4CH3 | 46 |
9780691123905_5CH4 | 59 |
9780691123905_6CH5 | 84 |
9780691123905_7CH6 | 104 |
9780691123905_8CH7 | 121 |
9780691123905_9CH8 | 143 |
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9780691123905_13CON | 259 |
9780691123905_14NOT | 283 |
9780691123905_15IND | 313 |
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