Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

Informationen zum Autor Ryan Patrick Hanley is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. His research in the history of political philosophy has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, the European Journal of Political Theory and other academic journals and edited volumes. He is also the editor of the forthcoming Penguin Classics edition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, featuring an introduction by Amartya Sen, and a co-editor, with Darrin McMahon, of The Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in History. Klappentext This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith to recover his understanding of morality in a market age. Zusammenfassung 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. Focusing on Smith's analysis of the psychological and social ills endemic to commercial society! Hanley argues Smith sought to combat corruption by cultivating the virtues of prudence! magnanimity and beneficence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The problem: commerce and corruption; 2. The solution: moral philosophy; 3. Interlude: the what and the how of TMS VI; 4. Prudence, or commercial virtue; 5. Magnanimity, or classical virtue; 6. Beneficence, or Christian virtue; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Hanley, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Ryan Patrick (Marquette University Hanley, Hanley Ryan Patrick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521188234
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18823-4
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > German idealism, 19th century; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy