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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... particular, from WN has puzzled many commentators. Perhaps we should view the writing of WN as a triumph of self- command, Smith's favorite virtue: Smith contributes to the founding of social science precisely by refraining from direct ...
... particular branches of it are so. But . . . there is no general decay. . . . The great property which [the Dutch] possess both in the French and English funds, about forty millions, it is said, in the latter (in which I suspect, however ...
... those— Straussian and others—who see Smith as suppressing atheist convictions, in particular, out of a fear of persecution, I would respond simply that (1) Smith in fact expresses enough heresy in both TMS and WN, 14 CHAPTER ONE.
... particular event raises some suspicions, after all, about just how general his political principles can possibly be, whereas if his principles really are so general, one wonders how they could be as helpful as they were for justifying ...
... particular, as a sophisticated realization that the very attempt to defend common sense suggests, wrongly, that common sense needs defense. One can, that is, read Smith as an anticipator of Wittgenstein, who, in On Certainty, pointed ...
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