it serves a synthetic approach to philosophy that is “largely a matter of trying to put things together, trying to get the pieces of very large puzzles to make sense,” as Peter Godfrey-Smith states.
Celebrate Smith’s birthday today by giving one of those essays a read. A modern student writes about the pioneering Scottish philosopher and economist. Smith once fabricated a historical ...
Adam Smith and virtuous business James R. Otteson 7. Adam Smith and the morality of political economy: a public choice reading Maria Pia Paganelli 8. A moral philosophy for commercial society? Robin ...
A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith is to go on display in his home town in Fife. The book by philosopher John Locke, Two Treatises of Civil Government ...
John Connolly became a member of the Smith philosophy department in 1973. His current research interests are in medieval philosophy (especially Meister Eckhart), philosophy of mind, the tradition of ...
The essential feature of capitalism is the motive to make a profit. As Adam Smith, the 18th century philosopher and father of modern economics, said: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, ...
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