The problem : commerce and corruption
Smith's defense of commercial society
What is corruption? : political and psychological perspectives
Smith on corruption : from the citizen to the human being
The solution : moral philosophy
Liberal individualism and virtue ethics
Social science vs. moral philosophy
Types of moral philosophy : natural jurisprudence vs. ethics
Types of ethics : utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics
Virtue ethics : modern, ancient, and Smithean
Interlude : the what and the how of TMS VI
The what : Sith's "practical system of morality"
The how : rhetoric, audience, and the methods of practical ethics
The how : the ascent of self-love in three stages
Prudence or commercial virtue
The challenge : from praise to prudence
Educating the vain : fathers and sons
Self-interest rightly understood
The advantages and disadvantages of prudence
Magnanimity or classical virtue
The problems of prudence and the therapy of magnanimity
Up from individualism : desert, praiseworthiness, conscience
Modernity, antiquity, and magnanimity
The dangers of magnanimity
Beneficence or christian virtue
Between care and caritas
Benevolence and beneficence and the human telos
The character and purposes of the wise and virtuous man
Wisdom and virtue and Adam Smith's apology
Epilogue: The "economy of greatness".