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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... object,” and that “though a lover may be good company to his mistress, he is so to nobody else” (TMS 31). Is this simply supposed to describe a fact about love, or does it include some gentle mockery of that passion? In pondering this ...
... object of fear” and become instead an object of pity, and how we defend justice to “the young and licentious” when they come up with clever arguments by which to sneer at the rules that seem sacred to us. Finally, after granting so much ...
... objects” (WN 21). The philosopher sits in the audience, putting the whole together while others partic- ipate in this or that piece of the whole. The philosopher is a spectator of a drama—only this time of the theatrum mundi, the drama ...
... object of his work, especially in WN. He does not claim to have discovered any new economic facts or forces—nor did he do so, if Schumpeter is right—nor to have found, like an economic Newton, fundamental mathematical laws for all ...
... objects they describe, and their consequent fallibility, does not entail any doubt about the reality or materiality of those objects themselves, or about the epi- stemic principles guiding the theories. It does not amount, that is, to ...
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9780691123905_13CON | 259 |
9780691123905_14NOT | 283 |
9780691123905_15IND | 313 |
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