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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... . In addition to her editorial help, my wife, Amy Reichert, has borne the irritations attendant on writing a book with wonderful patience and understanding. ABBREVIATIONS When citing Smith, I will use page numbers, rather.
... 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 moral commentary most of the time in WN, by laying out the facts of political ...
... writing on Smith is his own account of other philosophers in Book VII of TMS. Smith respects his predecessors and ... writer's meaning unless one places his or her writings in the polemical context to which they responded. Yet those who ...
... writing, between what he said to his contem- poraries and what he might say to us. We can learn from Adam Smith today, but to do so, we need to distinguish carefully between his local and his univer- sal teachings. PART I Methodology ...
... writing philoso- phy and political economy in appealing, everyday language flows from a sophis- ticated theory about how human knowledge works, which itself needs to be grasped in order to make clear the full import of Smith's teachings ...
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