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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... imaginative- projection theory. Yet readers frequently take Smith himself to hold the sympa- thy-as-infection view.5 The same roundabout, qualified way of making points runs through WN and has often led to the same sorts of mistakes in ...
... imagination, rather than of the senses alone, imaginative writing can quite directly enliven or enrich our 12 CHAPTER ONE.
... imagination, a project that needs to draw on imaginative resources and that aims at extending the moral imaginations of its readers. In addition to drawing on literary resources, he fashions his own examples into vivid little stories ...
... imaginations, which he considers essential both to good science and to good moral philosophy, rather than giving us a ... imagination. This simplification and concentration of a point, and this way of connecting it to the reader's own ...
... imagination, to connect together the otherwise disjointed and discordant phaenomena of nature” (EPS 105). Behind this emphasis on perspicuity and concomitant conception of systems lies, I believe, a sophisticated epistemological theory ...
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