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105The philosophy of Adam Smith: essays commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Theory of moral sentiments (edited book)Routledge. 2010.The Philosophy of Adam Smith contains essays by some of the most prominent philosophers and scholars working on Adam Smith today. It is a special issue of The Adam Smith Review, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. Introduction Part 1: Moral phenomenology 1. The virtue of TMS 1759 D.D. Raphael 2. The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the inner life Emma Rothschild 3. The standpoint of morality in Adam Smith and Hegel Angelica Nuzzo Part 2: Sympathy and moral ju…Read more
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25Divine teaching and the way of the world: a defense of revealed religionOxford University Press. 2011.Introduction -- Part I. The way of the world I: truth -- Introductory -- Truth in the state of nature -- Socialized truth -- Experts and authorities -- Part II. The way of the world II: ethics -- Introductory -- Application -- Motivation -- Transformation -- Teleology -- Part III. Beyond the way of the world: worth -- Dissolving the question -- Dismissing the question -- Worth as attached to specific activities -- Worth as attached to general features of life -- Kantian accounts of worth -- Secu…Read more
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10David Fenner, ed., Ethics and the Arts: An Anthology:Ethics and the Arts: An AnthologyEthics 108 (2): 427-429. 1998.
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71Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy (review)Ethics 114 (2): 380-385. 2004.
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123On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical CompanionPrinceton University Press. 2004.Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet until now there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Wealth of Nations . Samuel Fleischacker suggests that Smith's vastly influential treatise on economics can be better understood if placed in the light of his epistemology, philosophy of science, and moral theory. He lays out the relevance of these aspects of Smith's thought to specific themes in the Wealth of Nations , arguing, among other things, that Smith reg…Read more
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42A third concept of liberty: judgment and freedom in Kant and Adam SmithPrinceton University Press. 1999.Taking the title of his book from Isaiah Berlin's famous essay distinguishing a negative concept of liberty connoting lack of interference by others from a positive concept involving participation in the political realm, Samuel Fleischacker explores a third definition of liberty that lies between the first two. In Fleischacker's view, Kant and Adam Smith think of liberty as a matter of acting on our capacity for judgment, thereby differing both from those who tie it to the satisfaction of our de…Read more
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21The ethics of cultureCornell University Press. 1994.Fleischacker addresses the dangers of seeking ethical understanding across cultures--that we may either impose our own values on others or abandon all norms to relativism. Drawing in particular on the Jewish tradition, he sees the unique and powerful stories that each culture tells as crucial to ethical practice, and suggests that neither tradition nor authority is antagonistic to freedom.
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83Integrity and moral relativismE.J. Brill. 1992.As long as there is a language for these possibilities, the book argues, an individual can see ethics as culturally based without compromising his or her own ...
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42Owning Land Versus Governing a Land: Property, Sovereignty, and NationalismSocial Philosophy and Policy 30 (1-2): 373-403. 2013.This essay attempts to clarify the distinction between property and sovereignty, and to bring out the importance of that distinction to a liberal nationalism. Beginning with common intuitions about what distinguishes our rights to our possessions from the state's rightful governance over us, it proceeds to explore some historical sources of these intuitions, and the importance of a sharp distinction between ownership and governance to the rise of liberalism. From here, the essay moves into an ex…Read more
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26Review of Ryan Patrick Hanley, Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10). 2009.
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