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2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-66751-7 (ISBN)
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This book is an accessible and engaging introduction to Smith’s most important contributions to philosophy, that begins with an introductory chapter on Smith’s life, writings and readings, and also contains a chronology, further reading and chapter summaries.
Adam Smith is rediscovered every few generations by philosophers surprised by his subtlety, originality, and relevance. Smith’s status as mythical father of economic science and his role as canonical defender of free trade is secure within economics, but few philosophers have been more often misrepresented and underestimated. Because he is well known as an advocate of commercial society, many scholars, public intellectuals, commentators, and journalists are happy to implicate him automatically in its successes and failures, or to enlist him in one side or another of the various ideological battles surrounding the utility and dangers of market economics.
This book is an accessible and engaging introduction to Smith’s most important contributions to philosophy. Beginning with an introductory chapter on Smith’s life, writings and readings, Eric Schliesser locates Smith in his immediate social (Scottish and European) and philosophical (Hume, Hutcheson, Mandeville, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Butler, Hobbes, Spinoza, Newton, Voltaire) context. Later chapters analyse key concepts in his core moral, political and metaphysical theories (sympathy, self-interest, division of labor), before turning to Smith's contribution to areas of ongoing philosophical interest, especially philosophy of science, and the metaphysics of mind and self. Schliesser concludes by summarising Smith's complicated legacy in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, and explores how Smith is being 're-discovered' in contemporary moral philosophy.
Adam Smith is rediscovered every few generations by philosophers surprised by his subtlety, originality, and relevance. Smith’s status as mythical father of economic science and his role as canonical defender of free trade is secure within economics, but few philosophers have been more often misrepresented and underestimated. Because he is well known as an advocate of commercial society, many scholars, public intellectuals, commentators, and journalists are happy to implicate him automatically in its successes and failures, or to enlist him in one side or another of the various ideological battles surrounding the utility and dangers of market economics.
This book is an accessible and engaging introduction to Smith’s most important contributions to philosophy. Beginning with an introductory chapter on Smith’s life, writings and readings, Eric Schliesser locates Smith in his immediate social (Scottish and European) and philosophical (Hume, Hutcheson, Mandeville, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Butler, Hobbes, Spinoza, Newton, Voltaire) context. Later chapters analyse key concepts in his core moral, political and metaphysical theories (sympathy, self-interest, division of labor), before turning to Smith's contribution to areas of ongoing philosophical interest, especially philosophy of science, and the metaphysics of mind and self. Schliesser concludes by summarising Smith's complicated legacy in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, and explores how Smith is being 're-discovered' in contemporary moral philosophy.
1. Introduction: Life and Works Part 1: Propensities and Passions 2. Passionate Human Nature 3. The Passions, and Reason 4. From Natural Sentiments to General Rules and Moral Sentiments 5. The Sympathetic Process & Judgments of Propriety Part 2: Society 6. Society and Political Taxonomy: Individuals, Classes, Factions, Nations, and Governments 7. Adam Smith’s Foundations for Political Philosophy 8. Institutions and Social Consequentialism 9. Virtue 10. Three Invisible Hands 11. Philosophy of Science 12. The Methodology of Wealth of Nations 13. Smith and Anti-Mathemics 14. Regulation of Markets 15. Religion Part 3: Philosophers 16. A Cheerful Philosophical Life. Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.2.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Arguments of the Philosophers |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-66751-8 / 0415667518 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-66751-7 / 9780415667517 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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