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Adam Smith and the character of virtue / Ryan Patrick Hanley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanley, Ryan Patrick, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
- Smith, Adam.
- Virtue.
- Ethics, Modern--18th century.
- Ethics, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's founding father, to recover his understanding of morality in a market age.
- Contents:
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-18907-1
- 0-511-69862-3
- 1-282-30273-6
- 9786612302732
- 0-511-58089-4
- 0-511-57945-4
- 0-511-57871-7
- 0-511-58019-3
- OCLC:
- 609843018
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