UID:
edocfu_9959238360402883
Format:
1 online resource (242 p.)
ISBN:
1-107-18907-1
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0-511-69862-3
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1-282-30273-6
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9786612302732
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0-511-58089-4
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0-511-57945-4
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0-511-57871-7
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0-511-58019-3
Content:
This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's founding father, to recover his understanding of morality in a market age.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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".
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-511-58057-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-44929-4
Language:
English
