Adam Smith : an enlightened life / Nicholas Phillipson.
Phillipson, N. T. (Nicholas T.)
2010
HB103.S6 P45 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Adam Smith : an enlightened life / Nicholas Phillipson.
Author Phillipson, N. T. (Nicholas T.)
ISBN 9780300169270 (alk. paper)
0300169272 (alk. paper)
Publication Details New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description xiv, 345 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Call Number HB103.S6 P45 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 330.15/3092
Summary Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Phillipson explains Adam Smith's part in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh at the time of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all Phillipson explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialog with his closest friend David Hume. --Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A Kirkcaldy upbringing
Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis Hutcheson's enlightenment
Private study 1740-46 : Oxford and David Hume
Edinburgh's early enlightenment
Smith's Edinburgh lectures : a conjectural history
Professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, I. 1751-9
The 'Theory of moral sentiments' and the civilizing powers of commerce
Professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, 2. 1759-63
Smith and the Duke of Buccleuch in Europe 1764-6
London, Kirkcaldy and the making of the 'Wealth of nations' 1766-76
The 'Wealth of nations' and Smith's "very violent attack ... upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain"
Hume's death
Last years in Edinburgh 1778-90.

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