Ryan Patrick Hanley

Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

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Produktbeschreibung

Revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's founding father, to recover his understanding of morality in a market age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780521449298
• ISBN-10: 0521449294
• Artikelnr.: 26106260

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.