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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... expect that the stile they express themselves in will be far from being the same” (LRBL 38).1 Cicero's elegance and propriety make evident, he says, “that the author conceive[d] himself to be of importance, and dignity” (LRBL 159) ...
... expect from life, implying that the sort of philosophy that Descartes or Hume did is somehow “unreal” (“language on holiday,” as Wittgenstein would say) or contrasts the “refinement[s] of philosophy” unfavorably with the views we come ...
... expect to dispose of obstacles to common sense is simply to point them out, and to clarify the context that produced them. And this is exactly what Smith does. He repeatedly shows, for instance, that “the real wealth and revenue of a ...
... expect to be presented with a set of regularities with many exceptions, rather than a set of universal laws describing universal forces, from someone who purports to describe for us “the nature and causes” of the wealth of nations ...
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