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Adam Smith s Moral Sentiments in Vanity Fair
Author | : Rosa Slegers |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018-09-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783319987316 |
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According to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise: a vain person is much more likely than a person with low self-esteem to accomplish great things. Problematic as it may be from a moral perspective, vanity makes a person more likely to succeed in business, politics and other public pursuits. “The great secret of education,” Smith writes, “is to direct vanity to proper objects:” this peculiar vice can serve as a stepping-stone to virtue. How can this transformation be accomplished and what might go wrong along the way? What exactly is vanity and how does it factor into our personal and professional lives, for better and for worse? This book brings Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments into conversation with William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair to offer an analysis of vanity and the objects (proper and otherwise) to which it may be directed. Leading the way through the literary case study presented here is Becky Sharp, the ambitious and cunning protagonist of Thackeray’s novel. Becky is joined by a number of other 19th Century literary heroines – drawn from the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot – whose feminine (and feminist) perspectives complement Smith’s astute observations and complicate his account of vanity. The fictional characters featured in this volume enrich and deepen our understanding of Smith’s work and disclose parts of our own experience in a fresh way, revealing the dark and at times ridiculous aspects of life in Vanity Fair, today as in the past.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Author | : Adam Smith |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2012-08-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780486119588 |
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DIVThis 1749 work features highly original theories of conscience, moral judgment, and virtue. It reconstructs the Enlightenment concept of social science, embracing both political economy and theories of law and government. /div
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Author | : Adam Smith (économiste) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BCUL:1092833964 |
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Author | : Adam Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HXJFN9 |
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The Adam Smith Problem
Author | : Dogan Göçmen |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2007-06-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780857710024 |
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This is the first scholarly work to deal solely with the Adam Smith problem, namely the apparent contradiction between Adam Smith's most famous works, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". Since the 1840s scholars have puzzled over and attempted to explain the fact that these works offer two fundamentally different and contradictory concepts of human nature. In this radical new approach Do an Gocmen argues that there are, indeed, two different concepts of human nature; in "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", Smith advocates a broad synchronization of human intention and behaviour under a beneficent providence in a system of mutual sympathy, whereas "Wealth of Nations" is a critical account of the human situation of the individual and is an egoistic description of human beings in commercial society. Gocmen argues that Smith does indeed put forward two different and varied ideas, arguing that the ethical position articulated in "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" can be, and was intended by Smith to be, applied as a basis for criticising the commercial society analysed in the "Wealth of Nations". Gocmen argues that this ethical position points to the character of its ideal future replacement, that of Adam Smith's Utopia. Gocmen therefore dismisses as short-sighted and oversimple the common assumption that Adam Smith's Utopia consists merely of 'the invisible hand', the idea that markets would regulate everything if left to their own dynamics. This book challenges the traditional approach to Adam Smith and is the first contribution to the solution of a long-standing debate, making it essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the moral philosophy, political economy and utopian thought of Adam Smith.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Author | : Adam Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1793 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NKP:1003275738 |
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The theory of moral sentiments
Author | : Adam Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : MSU:31293106748548 |
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The Wealth of Nations The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Author | : Adam Smith |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 1571 |
Release | : 2023-12-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547762775 |
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The invisible hand of the market is a metaphor conceived by Adam Smith to describe the self-regulating behavior of the marketplace. The exact phrase is used just three times in Smith's writings, but has come to capture his important claim that individuals' efforts to maximize their own gains in a free market benefits society, even if the ambitious have no benevolent intentions. Smith came up with the two meanings of the phrase from Richard Cantillon who developed both economic applications in his model of the isolated estate. He first introduced the concept in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, written in 1759. In this work, however, the idea of the market is not discussed, and the word "capitalism" is never used. By the time he wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776, Smith had studied the economic models of the French Physiocrats for many years, and in this work the invisible hand is more directly linked to the concept of the market: specifically that it is competition between buyers and sellers that channels the profit motive of individuals on both sides of the transaction such that improved products are produced and at lower costs. Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment era. Smith is best known for two classic works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The latter, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics.