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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... suggest to us that they have met with good or bad fortune, and we feel grief or joy because we imagine ourselves meeting with similar fortune. Even in these cases, therefore, we are really projecting ourselves into other people's ...
... suggests that Smith is painting a partic- ularly gloomy picture of the poor's condition in order to inspire political agents to alleviate that condition.10 On the other hand, Vivienne Brown has persuasively argued that a crucial ...
... suggest in his writings that there there is no report of his ever avowing atheism, egoism, might be a difference between “common life” beliefs and the views of philoso- phers, as his friend David Hume had done. So I regard the hunt for ...
... suggests, wrongly, that common sense needs defense. One can, that is, read Smith as an anticipator of Wittgenstein, who, in On Certainty, pointed out that his colleague G. E. Moore's Reidian attempts to provide a philosophical defense ...
... suggest a theory of how common life beliefs, the beliefs of ordinary people, can go wrong: powerful figures—politicians and merchants, in these cases, and religious leaders elsewhere (TMS 133–4, 177– 8)—prop up what might otherwise have ...
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