Adam Smith (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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Born in Calvinist Scotland, bereft by the early death of his father, and extremely precocious, Adam Smith spent his life trying to reconcile Providence with the needs of the individual and the greater society. He became professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1752, and it was there that he completed his first important work.
The Theory of Moral SentimentsDuring Smith’s time, moral philosophy embraced a series of disciplines in what today would be considered the humanities and the social sciences. At that time, philosophers of...
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