Adam Smith : systematic philosopher and public thinker / Eric Schliesser
- Author
- Schliesser, Eric, 1971-
- Published
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 407 pages ; 25 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker -- A.Systems In Adam Smith -- B.Smith's Corpus As Two Systems Of Philosophy -- C.A Bibliographic Interlude -- D.Methodologic Remarks -- E.Summary -- pt. 1 PROPENSITIES AND PASSIONS -- 2.Passionate Human Nature -- A.Human Propensities And Smithian Social Explanation -- B.Mind, Language, And Society -- 3.The Passions, Rationality, and Reason -- A.Natural Passions -- B.Proto-Passions, Preconceptions, And Why Smith Is Not An Empiricist -- C.Causation, Sound Judgment, And Environmental Rationality -- D.Reason As An Active Principle -- E.Natural Unexpected Passions: The Intellectual Sentiments -- F.Derived Passions -- 4.From Natural Sentiments to General Rules and Moral Sentiments -- A.Natural Sentiments -- i.Smith's Criticisms of Hume's Account of Property -- ii.The Natural Sentiments and General Rules -- B.Moral Faculties: The Moral Sense And Conscience -- 5.The Sympathetic Process and Judgments of Propriety -- A.Sympathetic Process (Feelings) -- B.Sympathy And Knowledge Of Causal Relations -- C.Judgments Of Proportionality -- D.Counterfactual Reasoning In The Sympathetic Process -- E.The Piacular, Or On Seeing Oneself As A Moral Cause In Adam Smith -- i.We (Ought to) See Ourselves as Causes! -- ii.Norms of Appeasement, or On Experts and Smith's Embrace of Fortune ... -- iii.Superstition and Grandeur -- iv.Natural Sentiments and Enlightenment, or Nature Versus Reason -- F.The Impartial Spectator -- pt. 2 SOCIETY -- 6.Society and Political Taxonomy: Individuals, Classes, Factions, Nations, and Governments -- 7.Adam Smiths Foundations for Political Philosophy -- A."A New Utopia" -- B.Even The Humane Smith -- C.Belonging To Society -- i.The Genealogy Of Property -- ii.Original And Derived Property -- iii.The Turn To History: The Enlightenment Imperative -- 8.Social Institutions And Consequentialism -- A.Society, Justice, And Group Selection -- B.Utility And Social Institutions -- C.The Measure Of Real Price: Adam Smith's Science Of Equity -- D.Progressive Taxation -- E.On Theoretical Partiality Toward The Working Poor -- F.The Role Of The Legislator; Private Virtue, Public Happiness -- G.Liberty -- H.Regulating Markets -- 9.Virtue -- A.Virtue As Excellence Or Virtue In Common Life? -- B.Excellent-In-Virtue-Of-Character -- 10.Three Invisible Hands -- A.The Invisible Hand Of Jupiter, And Miracles -- B.The "Vain And Insatiable Desires" Of The Rich -- C.Promoting Unintended Ends In WN -- D.Comparing The Three Invisible Hands -- 11.Philosophy Of Science -- A.Philosophy Within The Division Of Labor -- B.Social Epistemology And The Impartial Spectator -- C.Copernicus And Newton: Modest Scientific Realism -- D.Magnanimous Superstition -- 12.The Methodology Of Wealth Of Nations -- A.Reflexivity -- B.Natural And Market Prices -- C.Deviations From Nature, "The Price Of Free Competition" -- i.Newton's Fourth Rule Of Reasoning -- ii.Descartes And Kepler's Irregularities -- D.The Role Of Institutions -- E.Model, Cause, And Process; Smithian Social Explanation -- F.Hume Versus Smith On The Introduction Of Commerce -- G.Hume's Natural Rate Of Propagation And Smith's Digression On Silver -- 13.Smith And Anti-Mathematicism -- A.Smith's Newtonianism Reconsidered -- B.The Road To True Philosophy -- C.Anti-Mathematicism And Proportionality In Hume And Smith -- pt. 3 Philosophers -- 14.Religion -- A.Biblical Revelation And Christian Theology -- B.Anticlericalism And Freedom Of Religion -- 15.A Cheerful Philosophical Life -- A.The Commercial Philosopher -- B.Hume's Exchange With Charon -- C.Friendship, Sincerity, And Real Happiness -- pt. 4 CONCLUSION -- 16.Conclusion.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780190690120 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0190690127 hardcover ; alkaline paper - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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