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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... tion, by everyone from teachers of elementary economics to public intellectuals. The clarity of these quotations can be misleading, however. This is partly because Smith is, even on the surface, a more complex writer than might appear ...
... tion”—is there mostly to balance “no solid joy,” or to emphasize it, to allow us to dwell longer upon it, and “on the contrary” and “however” are there simply to give the sentence a relaxed tempo. Yet “no satisfaction that will bear any ...
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 ...
... tion works (part IV), and only then, when the opposing views have been thor- oughly dismantled, does Smith say that “the obvious and simple system of natu- ral liberty establishes itself of its own accord” (WN 687). Thus a view is set ...
... tion to others and our relation to ourselves in a thoroughly theatrical way: we are “constantly imagining ourselves appearing before the eyes of other people.”12 Griswold stresses more the theatrical nature of Smith's books. In the ...
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