Theology Morality And Adam Smith

Author : Jordan J. Ballor,Cornelis van der Kooi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000605891

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Theology, Morality and Adam Smith by Jordan J. Ballor,Cornelis van der Kooi Pdf

This work details the theological sources and moral significance of the life and work of the Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith (1723–1790). The panel of contributors deepens our understanding of Adam Smith in his religious and theological context and the significance of this understanding for contemporary moral, economic, and political challenges to modern social life. The chapters cover a broad range of disciplinary and historical concerns, from Smith’s view of providence and his famous "invisible hand" to the role of self-interest and benevolence in Smith’s social and economic thought. A better appreciation for the moral and theological dimensions of Smith’s thought provides not only a better understanding of Smith’s own context and significance in the Scottish Enlightenment but also promises to assist in meeting the perennial challenges of properly connecting economic realities to moral responsibility. The book is of interest to advanced students and scholars of the history of economic thought, historical and moral theology, intellectual history, political science, and philosophy.

Author : Tom Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135174873

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Adam Smith's Science of Morals by Tom Campbell Pdf

This critical exposition of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, first published in 1971, gives an appreciation of Smith’s conception of scientific method as applied to the study of social phenomena. The work is placed in the context of Smith’s other writings including of course The Wealth of Nations, but making special use of the theory of scientific development contained in his posthumous work, Essays on Philosophical Subjects. By concentrating on Smith’s methodological approach to the study of society, this book provides an illuminating interpretation of his moral theory and defends it against any mistaken criticisms. It also includes a much needed analysis of the important differences between Smith’s ‘impartial spectator’ and the ‘ideal observer’ of modern ethical society. The result is a pointed study, bringing out the close connection between his moral, legal and ethical theories, which will be welcomed by all students of 18th century thought, specialists in moral theory, and the interested lay-reader.

Author : Paul Oslington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136721991

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Adam Smith as Theologian by Paul Oslington Pdf

This book considers the theological background and meaning of Smith's work. Adam Smith as Theologian gathers a group of eminent economists, historians, philosophers, and theologians to reflect on these questions, examining the extent to which even contemporary economics may contain residues of Smith's theological mores.

Author : Jeremy Kidwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137536518

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Theology and Economics by Jeremy Kidwell Pdf

This volume brings together a prominent group of Christian economists and theologians to provide an interdisciplinary look at how we might use the tools of economic and theological reasoning to cultivate more just and moral economies for the 21st century.

Author : D. Stephen Long,Nancy Ruth Fox,Tripp York
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 9781602580145

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Calculated Futures by D. Stephen Long,Nancy Ruth Fox,Tripp York Pdf

Calculated Futures seeks a way forward by engaging economics as a social scientific discipline without subordinating theology to it.

Author : Brendan Long
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000536386

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Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand of God by Brendan Long Pdf

This book contributes to the ‘new view’ reading of Adam Smith, providing a historically and contextually rich interpretation of Smith’s thought. Smith built a moral philosophy on the foundations of a natural theology of human sociality. Examination of his life, relationship with David Hume and use of divine names shows that he retained a progressive form of Christian theism. The book interrogates the metaphor of the ‘invisible hand’ and highlights the importance of the religious dimension of Adam Smith’s thought for his moral philosophy, his jurisprudence and his economics. It reflects on the contemporary relevance of a theological reading of Smith and lays the ground for further inquiry between economic and religious perspectives.

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101460016

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith Pdf

Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he investigated the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good. Smith's classic work advances ideas about conscience, moral judgment, and virtue that have taken on renewed importance in business and politics. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Paul Oslington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351686037

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Political Economy as Natural Theology by Paul Oslington Pdf

Since the early 20th century, economics has been the dominant discourse in English-speaking countries, displacing Christian theology from its previous position of authority. This path-breaking book is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary dialogue between economics and religion. Oslington tells the story of natural theology shaping political economy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, emphasising continuing significance of theological issues for the discipline of economics. Early political economists such as Adam Smith, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke, William Paley, TR Malthus, Richard Whately, JB Sumner, Thomas Chalmers and William Whewell, extended the British scientific natural theology tradition of Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton to the social world. This extension nourished and shaped political economy as a discipline, influencing its theoretical framework, but perhaps more importantly helping legitimate political economy in the British universities and public policy circles. Educating the public in the principles of political economy had a central place in this religiously driven program. Natural theology also created tensions (especially reconciling economic suffering with divine goodness and power) that eventually contributed to its demise and the separation of economics from theology in mid-19th-century Britain. This volume highlights aspects of the story that are neglected in standard histories of economics, histories of science and contemporary theology. Political Economy as Natural Theology is essential reading for all concerned with the origins of economics, the meaning and purpose of economic activity and the role of religion in contemporary policy debates.

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1466229179

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith Pdf

To truly understand Adam Smith's economic masterpiece "The Wealth of Nations", one must understand its moral foundation. Without Smith's essential prequel, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", the more famous "Wealth of Nations" can easily be misunderstood, twisted, or dismissed. Smith rightly lays the premise of his economics in a seedbed of moral philosophy -- the rights and wrongs, the whys and why-nots of human conduct. Smith's capitalism is far from a callous, insensitive, greed-motivated, love-of-profits-at-any-cost approach to the marketplace, when seen in the context of his "Moral Sentiments." Smith's first section deals with the "Propriety of Action". The very first chapter of the book is entitled "Of Sympathy". This is very telling of Smith's view of life, and his approach to how men should conduct their lives. This propriety of conduct undergirds all social, political and economic activities, private and public. Smith treats the passions of men with clinical precision, identifying a gamut of passions like selfishness, ambition and the distinction of ranks, vanity, intimidation, drawing examples from history and various schools of philosophy. He extols such quiet virtues as politeness, modesty and plainness, probity and prudence, generosity and frankness -- certainly not the qualities of the stereotypical cartoon of a capitalist robber-baron.

Author : Jerry Evensky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139446778

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Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy by Jerry Evensky Pdf

Adam Smith is the best known among economists for his book, The Wealth of Nations, often viewed as the keystone of modern economic thought. For many he has become associated with a quasi-libertarian laissez-faire philosophy. Others, often heterodox economists and social philosophers, on the contrary, focus on Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, and explore his moral theory. There has been a long debate about the relationship or lack thereof between these, his two great works. This work treats these dimensions of Smith's work as elements in a seamless moral philosophical vision, demonstrating the integrated nature of these works and Smith's other writings. This book weaves Smith into a constructive critique of modern economic analysis (engaging along the way the work of Nobel Laureates Gary Becker, Amarty Sen, Douglass North, and James Buchanan) and builds bridges between that discourse and the other social sciences.

Author : Athol Fitzgibbons
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191521768

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Adam Smith's System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue by Athol Fitzgibbons Pdf

This study analyses the influence that Adam Smith's philosophy had on his Wealth of Nations, and reveals the unity in Smith's extensive system of morals, politics, and economics. It concludes that Smith was motivated by a political ideal, which was moral liberalism.

Author : John Cunningham Wood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415108942

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Adam Smith by John Cunningham Wood Pdf

The first series of Smith "Critical Assessments" included major articles on Adam Smith and set a new standard for Smith scholarship. However, the years since its publication have seen further developments in the vast field of work on this leading economist. "Adam Smith: Critical Assessments--Second Series" completes the project of the earlier volumes by making available the many significant articles which have appeared during the past decade. It will be an invaluable reference for scholars of Smith. Together, the two series provide those interested in the history of contemporary economics with immediate access to the intellectual legacy of one of the world's greatest economic theorists.

Author : Robert Brank Fulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B3859908

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Adam Smith Speaks to Our Times by Robert Brank Fulton Pdf

Author : Paul T. Heyne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000122541802

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"Are Economists Basically Immoral?" by Paul T. Heyne Pdf

""Art Economists Basically Immoral?" and Other Essays on Economics, Ethics, and Religion is a collection of Heyne's essays focused on an issue that preoccupied him throughout his life and which concerns many free-market skeptics - namely, how to reconcile the apparent selfishness of a free-market economy with ethical behavior." "Written with the nonexpert in mind, and in a highly engaging style, these essays will interest students of economics, professional economists with an interest in ethical and theological topics, and Christians who seek to explore economic issues."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Samuel Fleischacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351848206

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Adam Smith by Samuel Fleischacker Pdf

Adam Smith (1723–1790) is widely regarded as one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment period. Best-known for his founding work of economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith engaged equally with the nature of morality in his Theory of Moral Sentiments. He also gave lectures on literature and jurisprudence, and wrote papers on art and science. In this outstanding philosophical introduction Samuel Fleischacker argues that Smith is a superb example of the broadly curious thinkers who flourished in the Enlightenment—for whom morality, politics, law, and economics were just a few of the many fascinating subjects that could be illuminated by naturalistic modes of investigation. After a helpful overview of his life and work, Fleischacker examines the full range of Smith’s thought, on such subjects as: epistemology, philosophy of science, and aesthetics the nature of sympathy moral approval and moral judgement virtue religion justice and jurisprudence governmental policy economic principles liberalism. Including chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary, Adam Smith is essential reading for those studying ethics, political philosophy, the history of philosophy, and the Enlightenment, as well as those reading Smith in related disciplines such as economics, law, and religion.