That’s the subject of the November Adam Smith 300 essay, written by Ryan Hanley of Boston College. What makes Smith’s philosophy of living any more worth our attention than many others that we ...

Given this zeitgeist, a book on the moral philosophy of Adam Smith is timely indeed. While Smith may be the founder of modern economics, he was first and foremost a professor of moral philosophy. Yet ...

The 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith ... of Smith's ethical and economic theories. Smith was appointed professor of logic in 1751 and then professor of moral philosophy in 1752 at ...