Adam Smith and the character of virtue
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- 9780521449298
- 179.9 22 HA-A
- B1545.Z7 H36 2009
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179.9 BR-R Regulating aversion tolerance in the age of identity and empire | 179.9 ET- Ethics of forgiveness a collection of essays | 179.9 FI-T Tolerance and the ethical life | 179.9 HA-A Adam Smith and the character of virtue | 179.9 JO-O On loyalty | 179.9 KO-T Trust self-interest and the common good | 179.9 PA-W Who are you who is dragging me? |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
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