The Cambridge Companion to Adam SmithKnud Haakonssen Cambridge University Press, 2006 M02 27 Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith's system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith's multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all of his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosophical engagement with his ideas. |
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... itis impossibleto formulate a universal idea of thehighest good orthe good life. Asa consequence, thevirtues that promote thegoods oflifecan be characterized only in general terms and, across cultural and historical divides, this may ...
... itis impossibleto formulate a universal idea of thehighest good orthe good life. Asa consequence, thevirtues that promote thegoods oflifecan be characterized only in general terms and, across cultural and historical divides, this may ...
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... Itis theimagination thatenables us to make connections between the perceived elements ofboth the physical and themoral world, ranging frombinary relations between particular events and things tocomplex systems such asthe national or ...
... Itis theimagination thatenables us to make connections between the perceived elements ofboth the physical and themoral world, ranging frombinary relations between particular events and things tocomplex systems such asthe national or ...
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... Itis particularly striking thathe neveremploys his concept of sympathy in connection with the origins of language. 9 Such desirefor order is inmany ways moreurgent in our dealings with people,incontrast to therest of nature,and the ...
... Itis particularly striking thathe neveremploys his concept of sympathy in connection with the origins of language. 9 Such desirefor order is inmany ways moreurgent in our dealings with people,incontrast to therest of nature,and the ...
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... Itis the impressions of our own senses only, not those of his, which ourimaginations copy” (I.i.1.2;emphasis added). Formulations such asthese are meanttoshow that we are not by nature “selfish” inthe sense ofincapableof entering into ...
... Itis the impressions of our own senses only, not those of his, which ourimaginations copy” (I.i.1.2;emphasis added). Formulations such asthese are meanttoshow that we are not by nature “selfish” inthe sense ofincapableof entering into ...
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... itis impossible that he should conceive himselfas suffering her pains inhis own proper person and character. (VII.iii.i.4; emphasis added) We seem pulled in different directions on the issue of whether the sympathetic imagination can ...
... itis impossible that he should conceive himselfas suffering her pains inhis own proper person and character. (VII.iii.i.4; emphasis added) We seem pulled in different directions on the issue of whether the sympathetic imagination can ...
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