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Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue |
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Author: Hanley, Ryan Patrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Adobe PDF
Content Language: English
ISBN: 9780511577611
Print ISBN: 9780521449298
Size: 2,012 KB
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 2009-06-30
Category:
Political Science > History & Theory > General
Territorial Restrictions:
Available Worldwide
Digital Rights:
Copy Count: 5
Copy Interval (Days): 30
Print Count: 20
Print Interval (Days): 30
Read Aloud: Enabled
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Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalismÃs founding father, to recover his understanding of the morals of the market age. In so doing it illuminates a crucial albeit overlooked side of SmithÃs project: his diagnosis of the ethical ills of commercial societies and the remedy he advanced to cure them. Focusing on SmithÃs analysis of the psychological and social ills endemic to commercial society ñ anxiety and restlessness, inauthenticity and mediocrity, alienation and individualism ñ it argues that Smith sought to combat corruption by cultivating the virtues of prudence, magnanimity, and beneficence. The result constitutes a new morality for modernity, at once a synthesis of commercial, classical, and Christian virtues and a normative response to one of the most pressing political problems of SmithÃs day and ours.
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