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Adam Smith and the character of virtue /
Focusing on Smith's analysis of the psychological and social ills endemic to commercial society--anxiety and restlessness, inauthenticity and mediocrity, alienation and individualism--the book argues that Smith sought to combat corruption by cultivating the virtues of prudence, magnanimity, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The problem : commerce and corruption
- Smith's defense of commercial society
- What is corruption? : political and psychological perspectives
- Smith on corruption : from the citizen to the human being
- The solution : moral philosophy
- Liberal individualism and virtue ethics
- Social science vs. moral philosophy
- Types of moral philosophy : natural jurisprudence vs. ethics
- Types of ethics : utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics
- Virtue ethics : modern, ancient, and Smithean
- Interlude : the what and the how of TMS VI
- The what : Sith's "practical system of morality"
- The how : rhetoric, audience, and the methods of practical ethics
- The how : the ascent of self-love in three stages
- Prudence or commercial virtue
- The challenge : from praise to prudence
- Educating the vain : fathers and sons
- Self-interest rightly understood
- The advantages and disadvantages of prudence
- Magnanimity or classical virtue
- The problems of prudence and the therapy of magnanimity
- Up from individualism : desert, praiseworthiness, conscience
- Modernity, antiquity, and magnanimity
- The dangers of magnanimity
- Beneficence or christian virtue
- Between care and caritas
- Benevolence and beneficence and the human telos
- The character and purposes of the wise and virtuous man
- Wisdom and virtue and Adam Smith's apology
- Epilogue: The "economy of greatness."