December 07, 2010
In an edition of the
Philosophy Bites podcast last month, “Nicholas Phillipson, his acclaimed biographer, discusses Adam Smith’s view of human beings.” Phillipson argues of Smith that “even his economic thinking is perhaps best understood as part of a broader philosophical project of a science of human beings.”
For more on Smith’s “broader philosophical project,” including the relationship between his famous
Wealth of Nations and rather less well-known
Theory of Moral Sentiments, see the following from the archives of the
Journal of Markets & Morality:
Robert A.
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