New Perspectives On Adam Smith'S Theory Of Moral Sentiments.

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ISBN:9781845424800
Editorial: Edward Elgar
Fecha de la edición:2007
Encuadernación:Tapa dura
Dimensiones: 156 cm x 234 cm
Nº Pág.:176
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Adam Smith's remarkable book, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", now deservedly coming to greater prominence, combines classical philosophy, early modern psychology and incisive observations of everyday life into a complex theory of human behaviour. "New Perspectives on Adam Smith's "The Theory of Moral Sentiments"" is a comprehensive study of Smith's ideas, reflecting the explosion of interest in his work. It brings together themes and methodologies from a variety of fields, including politics, sociology, intellectual history, history of science and evolutionary psychology.The contributions revolve around four themes: the ways in which Smith combined both classical and modern sources to create his own account of human economic and social behaviour; the insights gained from taking seriously the centrality of a benevolent deity to Smith's system; Smith's exploration of new forms of civility and self-formation, and the relationship between Smith's moral philosophy and the emerging bodies of knowledge that were formalized in the nineteenth century as sociology and science. Economists and political economists have predominated in Adam Smith scholarship. This book looks at Smith's ideas from a much broader set of disciplinary perspectives and as such will appeal to historians of economic, political and moral thought as well as Adam Smith scholars in particular and economists more generally.

1. Introduction by Geoff Cockfield and Ann Firth and John Laurent .
2. The role of thumos in Adam Smith's system by Lisa Hill.
3. Adam Smith's treatment of the Greeks in The Theory of Moral Sentiments: the case of Aristotle by Richard Temple-Smith.
4. Adam Smith, religion and the Scottish Enlightenment by Pete Clarke.
5. The 'new view' of Adam Smith and the development of his views over time by James E. Alvey.
6. The moon before the dawn: a seventeenth-century precursor of Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Jack Barbalet.
7. Adam Smith's moral philosophy as ethical self-formation by Ann Firth.
8. Science and its applications in The Theory of Moral Sentiments by David Thorpe.
9. Adam Smith, Charles Darwin and the moral sense by John Laurent and Geoff Cockfield.