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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... seems to have achieved this impartial voice too well, leading people, wrongly, to suppose that he left his moral beliefs behind when he came to write WN. It is part of my purpose to help correct this supposition, to help bring us back ...
... seems to me that he holds a problematic view. I hope to stimulate questions about Smith as much as to answer such questions. Many of the diffi- culties in Smith's views and arguments arise from the fact that he was dealing with ...
... seems even on a surface level, I mean above all to draw attention to his irony and his prolixity, two features of his style that are not uncommon in eighteenth-century writers, but that are rather more pronounced, and carry more weight ...
... seem sacred to us. Finally, after granting so much to the utilitarian account, Smith begins the next paragraph with a “But” and proceeds to make clear that he rejects the utilitarian view: “it is not a regard to the preservation of ...
A Philosophical Companion Samuel Fleischacker. tion they seem to be experiencing. The pericope concludes with a paragraph whose topic sentence is: “Sympathy, therefore, does not arise so much from the view of the passion, as from that of ...
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