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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... common sense” philosopher, anticipating elements in the thought of his academic successor, Thomas Reid, and certain trends in twentieth-century philosophy; that Smith has an unusually strong belief in human equality, which has important ...
... common misunderstandings of Smith. Instead of seeing the way each piece of Smith's texts fits into a larger whole, readers get lost in the middle of an objection Smith has been presenting and assume that the objection repre- sents ...
... common life” beliefs and the views of philoso- phers, as his friend David Hume had done. So I regard the hunt for Smith's esoteric doctrines, or the dismissal of what he says about, for instance, the importance and irreducibility of ...
... common scholarly verdict at the moment seems to be that Locke's work is supremely successful as a tract, and somewhat less so as a treatise. With Smith, the judgment tends to be reversed. The mere length and comprehensive- ness of WN ...
... common- sense observation (“A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another”), not because they reflect an exhaustive survey of history—come after the main work of getting us to see the impor ...
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