... Duke is an important example of ‘improvement from above’, one in which the proactive and interventionist role of the estate was central to the transformation of agrarian organisation and practice. Although improvement was considered by Adam Smith and the Duke as an area where private and national...

... to reconcile concepts of individuality, freedom, and sovereignty. Adam Smith’s invisible hand retains a visceral memory of the lost body politic, which finds an outlet in the workings of sympathy. German Idealism recasts the conflict between private individuals and commonality as a productive dynamic. British...

...The chapter explores the development of law teaching in the University of Edinburgh in the later eighteenth-century, showing how Adam Smith's thinking promoted the development by law professors, all linked to Henry Dundas, of an empirical and historically oriented attitude to law and government...

...This book aims to show that Adam Smith (1723–90), the author of Inquiry into…the Wealth of Nations, was not the promoter of ruthless laissez-faire capitalism that is still frequently depicted. His ‘right-wing’ reputation was sealed after his death, when it was not safe to claim...

...This chapter explains that Adam Smith was in favour of liberty, of equality and of fraternity. It evaluates the uncanny similarities between the ideas of Adam Smith and those of Gordon Brown. Smith's attitude to international trade was highly controversial. His economic and social liberalism...

...Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are two of the foremost thinkers of the European Enlightenment, thinkers who made seminal contributions to moral and political philosophy and who shaped some of the key concepts of modern political economy. Among Smith’s first published works was a letter...

... understanding and moral judgement. It then explores the sociological frameworks that formally structure The Fall. It also considers the relationship between beauty and utility in Shelley's Defence of Poetry and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments...

... an epistemological tradition linking these current perspectives to the Enlightenment empiricism of David Hume, Adam Smith, David Hartley, and Elizabeth Hamilton, Austen’s contemporary. The materialism of eighteenth-century thinkers constitutes the sceptical intellectual inheritance of Austen and Woolf. It underpins...

... – it is the twentieth-century cousin of the moral sympathy that David Hume and Adam Smith theorised in their influential philosophical works. Both eighteenth-century sympathy and twentieth-century empathy offer us powerful ways of understanding what is at stake in the Last Post, a text that has...

...This chapter looks at the extent of Glasgow’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and the key figures in Glasgow who sought to change, support, or comment on it. Adam Smith, rooted in the Glasgow Enlightenment, is shown to be anti-slavery, but Smith’s own complicated cultural memory...

...This chapter examines the relationship between time, feeling, and gender in two foundational texts of the Scottish Enlightenment, the Ossian poems and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments. It contends that Macpherson and Smith created a temporal map of emotion that gauged social...

...This chapter takes up a key theme in the liberal peace thesis: that the project of liberal peace begins in the eighteenth century with the work of Adam Smith on commerce and Adam Ferguson on civil society. The chapter shows that far from being committed to ‘peace’, eighteenth century liberalism...

...This chapter reports the moralism of Adam Smith. The weak church and the weak state had a double impact on the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith's moral theory is not the same as either Francis Hutcheson's or David Hume's. Hutcheson took the side of conscience against authority in church controversies...

...This chapter investigates where Adam Smith thought the invisible hand worked benignly in the economy, and where it failed to overcome the visible hands of meddling politicians and economic agents. The Wealth of Nations is a treatise on economic theory and an economist's advice...

...Abstract: Istvan Hont’s book Politics in Commercial Society, the final work of one of the twentieth century’s great students of Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment, presents a comparative study of the political theories of Smith and Rousseau. For students of the Smith...

...This chapter explores the meaning of Adam Smith’s claim that Jean-Jacques Rousseau embodied ‘the true spirit of a republican carried a little too far’, ultimately concluding that Smith was not referring to Rousseau’s ‘republican’ or ‘positive’ conception of liberty but rather to his claim...

...The masterpieces of Adam Smith include The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, the latter of which is based on the principle of the division of labour. Smith deploys some examples of sympathy that fit well...

...This chapter situates the leading thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume and Adam Smith, in the intellectual context of the interest-based form of liberalism pioneered by Mandeville. However, they present their moral theory not only as a repudiation of the “selfish system” of Hobbes...

... and popular readers validity of representation and temporality and literary value memory character ethical and self and narration and journalism and signification interpretation of others’ sacrifice of Charles Dickens sympathy empathy medical history James Mill memory David Hume Adam Smith...

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