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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... respects his predecessors and reports their views faithfully, yet at the same time he translates those views into the terms of his own moral system and criticizes them where, by his lights, they fail. This is an excellent example of the ...
... respect, and that brings us to a second reason for his understated tone. Swift, in part perhaps out of a gloomy disposition and in part, certainly, out of deep Pauline convictions, is willing to condemn human nature entirely. Smith's ...
... respect suitable to those measures and rules by which praise and approbation are naturally and commonly bestowed. (TMS 115) The length of this sentence can be explained in part by considerations of ele- gance. The second clause—“no ...
... respect both for Smith's own thoughtfulness and impartiality and for the thoughtfulness of the moral philoso- phers with whom he disagrees—come away themselves prepared to sift, thoughtfully and impartially, for nuggets of truth in ...
... respect than he did in TMS. Charles Griswold and David Marshall have drawn attention to Smith's de- clared fondness for the theater and suggested that TMS itself ought to be seen as in some measure a theatrical performance.11 Setting ...
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