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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... Hand PART IV Justice CHAPTER EIGHT A Theory of Justice? 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. Some Puzzles about Smith's Treatment of Justice Smith's Different Accounts of Justice A First Argument for the Precision of Rules of Justice Critical ...
... hand, it is hard to see why reasoning is worthwhile at all if ideas are merely determined by their context—if we cannot, by way of argument, rise on occasion above the prejudices and concerns of our time. That this is possible is an ...
... hand, he sees some of them as foolish or dangerous, as leading us away from virtue and happiness. On the other hand, as something natural, they cannot simply be rejected. An ironic distance may enable us to moderate their force, or to ...
... hand? By Smith's prolixity I mean first the fact that Smith is given to long, com- plexly structured sentences. Here is a delightful example, which also exhibits the dry wit that Smith shared with Swift. Smith has just announced that ...
... hand” rather than government intervention to a series of cases that may constitute exceptions to this general rule. One of these possible exceptions arises when an industry is needed for a country's defense and Smith uses this as an ...
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