On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical CompanionPrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 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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... better, what Kierkegaard would later call “humor” as opposed to irony2—can encourage this wry acceptance of what we cannot change. Rather than railing against human nature, Smith would have us adopt a humorous, unanxious atti- tude ...
... better than others. Right from WN's initial publication, Smith's readers have tended to see one part of these complex views without the other, complaining that he gives no role to militias because they read the initial section on the ...
... better paradigm of the division of labor: the many independent trades that are needed to make a laborer's coat. Why is the initial example there at all? Because it was the standard example for writers before Smith, and because it ...
... Better results have come from attending, not to Smith's analysis of literary style, but to the way he himself writes. Brown has provided a brilliant and exhaustive study of the “dialogic” quality of Smith's moral writings, of the way in ...
... better “systems” in- vented by intellectuals. In one of Smith's earliest writings, he is concerned to refute the notion that the ordinary person objectifies secondary qualities (EPS 141–2); in the “History of Astronomy,” he ...
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9780691123905_6CH5 | 84 |
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9780691123905_13CON | 259 |
9780691123905_14NOT | 283 |
9780691123905_15IND | 313 |
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