| Author | : Fonna Forman-Barzilai |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2010-03-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0521761123 |
A broad-ranging 2010 study of Smith's views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law.
| Author | : Ryan Patrick Hanley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2009-06-22 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0521449294 |
This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith to recover his understanding of morality in a market age.
| Author | : Dennis Carl Rasmussen |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2010-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0271045760 |
Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries about commercial society that Rousseau did and was strongly influenced by his critique. In this first book-length comparative study of these leading eighteenth-century thinkers, Dennis Rasmussen highlights Smith&’s sympathy with Rousseau&’s concerns and analyzes in depth the ways in which Smith crafted his arguments to defend commercial society against these charges. These arguments, Rasmussen emphasizes, were pragmatic in nature, not ideological: it was Smith&’s view that, all things considered, commercial society offered more benefits than the alternatives. Just because of this pragmatic orientation, Smith&’s approach can be useful to us in assessing the pros and cons of commercial society today and thus contributes to a debate that is too much dominated by both dogmatic critics and doctrinaire champions of our modern commercial society.
| Author | : Ryan Hanley |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2021-06-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0691216703 |
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economics.
| Author | : Dennis C. Rasmussen |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2019-06-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0691192286 |
Dearest friends -- The cheerful skeptic (1711-1749) -- Encountering Hume (1723-1749) -- A budding friendship (1750-1754) -- The historian and the Kirk (1754-1759) -- Theorizing the moral sentiments (1759) -- Fêted in France (1759-1766) -- Quarrel with a wild philosopher (1766-1767) -- Mortally sick at sea (1767-1775) -- Inquiring into the Wealth of Nations (1776) -- Dialoguing about natural religion (1776) -- A philosopher's death (1776) -- Ten times more abuse (1776-1777) -- Smith's final years in Edinburgh (1777-1790) -- Hume's My Own Life and Smith's Letter from Adam Smith, LL. D. to William Strahan, Esq
| Author | : David Schmidtz |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2018-02-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199989435 |
We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt. The concept of freedom (and relatedly the notion of liberty) is ubiquitous but not everyone agrees what the term means, and the philosophical analysis of freedom that has grown over the last two decades has revealed it to be a complex notion whose meaning is dependent on the context. The Oxford Handbook of Freedom will crystallize this work and craft the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. This volume includes 28 new essays by well regarded philosophers, as well some historians and political theorists, in order to reflect the breadth of the topic. This handbook covers both current scholarship as well as historical trends, with an overall eye to how current ideas on freedom developed. The volume is divided into six sections: conceptual frames (framing the overall debates about freedom), historical frames (freedom in key historical periods, from the ancients onward), institutional frames (freedom and the law), cultural frames (mutual expectations on our 'right' to be free), economic frames (freedom and the market), and lastly psychological frames (free will in philosophy and psychology).
| Author | : Ronald D. Sandler |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780742533905 |
There is one certainty regarding the human relationship with nature-there is no getting away from it. But while a relationship with nature is a given, the nature of that relationship is not. Environmental ethics is the attempt to determine how we ought and ought not relate to the natural environment. A complete environmental ethic requires both an ethic of action and an ethic of character. Environmental virtue ethics is the area of environmental ethics concerned with character. It has been an underappreciated and underdeveloped aspect of environmental ethics-until now. The selections in this collection, consisting of ten original and four reprinted essays by leading scholars in the field, discuss the role that virtue and character have traditional played in environmental discourse, and reflect upon the role that it should play in the future. The selections also discuss the substantive content of the environmental virtues and vices, and apply them to concrete environmental issues and problems. This collection establishes the indispensability of environmental virtue ethics to environmental ethics. It also enhances the breadth and quality of the ongoing discussion of environmental virtue and vice and the role they should play in an adequate environmental ethic.
| Author | : Mary Midgley |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0820320412 |
Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination. Mary Midgley's profound and clearly written narrative is a thought-provoking study of the way in which the opposition between reason and emotion has shaped our moral and political ideas and the problems it has raised. Whether considering vegetarianism, women's rights, or the "humanity" of pets, this book goes to the heart of the question of why all animals matter.
