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Adam Smith and the virtues of enlightenment
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Adam Smith and the virtues of enlightenment / Charles L. Griswold, Jr.
ISBN
9780521621274
0521621275
9780521628914 (pbk.)
0521628911 (pbk.)
Published
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1999.
Physical Description
xiv, 412 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Charles Griswold has written the first comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's work in the context of the continuing debate about the nature and survival of the Enlightenment, and also relates it to current discussions in moral philosophy." "This is a major historical and philosophical reassessment of a key figure in the Enlightenment that will be of particular interest to philosophers and political and legal theorists, as well as historians of ideas, economics, and political economy."--BOOK JACKET.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 03, 2012
Series
Modern European philosophy.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-399) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Rhetoric, method, and system in The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Sympathy and selfishness, imagination and self
The passions, pleasure, love of virtue, and the impartial spectator
Philosophy and skepticism
The theory of virtue
Justice
The moral sentiments and The Wealth of Nations
Philosophy, imagination, and the fragility of beauty: on reconciliation with nature
Epilogue
Bibliography.
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