Adam Smith and the Virtues of EnlightenmentCambridge University Press, 1999 - 412 páginas Although Adam Smith is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including moral philosophy, political economy, rhetorical theory, aesthetics, and jurisprudence. 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 relates it to current discussions in moral and political philosophy. Smith's appropriation as well as criticism of ancient philosophy, and his carefully balanced defense of a liberal and humane moral and political outlook, are also explored. This is a major reassessment of a key figure in modernity that will be of particular interest to philosophers and political and legal theorists, as well as historians of ideas, rhetoric, and political economy. |
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... tradition . Nonsectarian in approach and methodology , it in- cludes both introductory and more specialized treatments of these think- ers and topics . Authors are encouraged to interpret the boundaries of the modern European tradition ...
... tradition . Nonsectarian in approach and methodology , it in- cludes both introductory and more specialized treatments of these think- ers and topics . Authors are encouraged to interpret the boundaries of the modern European tradition ...
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... tradition rather than to the contemporary American credo currently contrasted with " conservatism . " In using the term " liberal " to characterize a political regime , I refer to a regime whose institutions are structured so as to ...
... tradition rather than to the contemporary American credo currently contrasted with " conservatism . " In using the term " liberal " to characterize a political regime , I refer to a regime whose institutions are structured so as to ...
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... tradition . Alasdair MacIntyre and Leo Strauss are among the best - known proponents of this approach , and we may ... tradition of the virtues ; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of ...
... tradition . Alasdair MacIntyre and Leo Strauss are among the best - known proponents of this approach , and we may ... tradition of the virtues ; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of ...
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... tradition : " There can , in my view , be no rolling back the central project of modernity , which is the Enlightenment project , with all its consequences in terms of disenchantment and ultimate groundlessness . The modernist project ...
... tradition : " There can , in my view , be no rolling back the central project of modernity , which is the Enlightenment project , with all its consequences in terms of disenchantment and ultimate groundlessness . The modernist project ...
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... tradition since Plato struggle with the self - reflexive paradox generated by the fact that such announcements about the " death of philosophy " tend themselves to be articulated in the language of the very tradition being rejected ...
... tradition since Plato struggle with the self - reflexive paradox generated by the fact that such announcements about the " death of philosophy " tend themselves to be articulated in the language of the very tradition being rejected ...
Contenido
2 ENLIGHTENMENT AND COUNTERENLIGHTENMENT IN THE WORK OF ADAM SMITH | 7 |
3 PHILOSOPHY RHETORIC AND ENLIGHTENMENT | 21 |
INTERPRETIVE ASSUMPTIONS | 26 |
5 THE UNITY OF SMITHS THOUGHT AND THE PROJECTED CORPUS | 29 |
RHETORIC METHOD AND SYSTEM IN THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS | 40 |
1 THE STARTING POINT OF ETHICAL INQUIRY | 44 |
2 RHETORIC THE PROTREPTIC WE AND THE DANGERS OF THEORY | 48 |
3 RHETORIC EXAMPLES AND NARRATIVE | 59 |
2 JUDGMENT RULES AND MORAL CRITICISM | 185 |
SELFCOMMAND PRUDENCE AND BENEVOLENCE | 202 |
4 MORAL EDUCATION | 210 |
5 VIRTUE THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS AND THE TRANQUILLITY OF THE STOIC SAGE | 217 |
JUSTICE | 228 |
1 NOBLE RESENTMENT AND COMMUTATIVE JUSTICE | 231 |
2 THE IRREGULARITY OF THE MORAL SENTIMENTS AND MORAL LUCK | 240 |
3 JUSTICE AND PHILOSOPHY | 244 |
4 CRITICISM GRAMMAR AND THE THEATER | 63 |
5 METHOD SYSTEM AND CONVERSATION | 70 |
SYMPATHY AND SELFISHNESS IMAGINATION AND SELF | 76 |
SELFISHNESS CONFLICT AND SYMPATHY | 78 |
2 SYMPATHY SEPARATENESS SELFLOVE AND SPECTATORIAL IMAGINATION | 83 |
SYMPATHY AUTHENTICITY AND SOCIAL FRAGMENTATION | 96 |
SYMPATHYS REACH AND THE IDEAL UNITY | 99 |
5 SPECTATORSHIP MIRRORING AND DUALITY OF SELF | 104 |
6 THE PATHOS OF SOLITUDE AND THE BEAUTY OF SYMPATHY | 109 |
THE PASSIONS PLEASURE AND THE IMPARTIAL SPECTATOR | 113 |
1 THE PASSIONS IMAGINATION AND THE CORRUPTION OF PLEASURE | 114 |
2 THE IMPARTIAL SPECTATOR AND THE LOVE OF VIRTUE | 129 |
PHILOSOPHY AND SKEPTICISM | 147 |
1 LOVE AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE THEATRUM MUNDI | 148 |
2 SMITH AND SKEPTICISM | 155 |
3 RHETORIC AND THE SEPARATION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE | 173 |
THE THEORY OF VIRTUE | 179 |
1 VIRTUOUS EMOTIONS | 181 |
4 DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE | 249 |
UNFINISHED BUSINESS | 256 |
THE MORAL SENTIMENTS AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS | 259 |
1 THE CORRUPTION OF THE MORAL SENTIMENTS AND THE DECEPTION OF THE IMAGINATION | 262 |
2 RELIGION AND THE VIRTUES OF LIBERTY | 266 |
3 MORAL CAPITAL CORRUPTION AND COMMERCE | 292 |
4 IMPERFECTION AND UTOPIANISM IN POLITICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY | 301 |
PHILOSOPHY IMAGINATION AND THE FRAGILITY OF BEAUTY ON RECONCILIATION WITH NATURE | 311 |
SMITHS CRITIQUE OF STOICISM | 317 |
3 NATURAL CONFLICT AND HUMANIZING INTERVENTION | 324 |
HARMONY BEAUTY PURPOSIVENESS | 330 |
5 IMAGINATION POIESIS AND SELFEMPOWERMENT | 336 |
6 PHILOSOPHY AND THE ELUSIVE TRANQUILLITY OF RECONCILIATION | 344 |
7 CONVENTION AND HISTORY | 349 |
EPILOGUE | 355 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 377 |
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Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment Charles L. Griswold, Jr Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |
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