| Description |
1 online resource (360 pages) |
| Contents |
Mediating terminology and textual complexity -- One system, many motivations -- Education as acculturation -- Education and social unity -- Finding rationality in reason -- Reason and the sentiments -- Normative argumentation -- Education foundations -- Formal education -- History and normativity -- Progress or postmodernism? -- A Smithian liberalism |
| Summary |
Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723-1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offering an interpretive methodology for approaching Smith's two major works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations, Weinstein argues against the libertarian interpretation of Smith, emphasizing his philosophies of education and rationality. Weinstein also demonstrates that Smith should be recognized for a prescient theory of pluralism that prefigures current theories of cultural diversity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790. Theory of moral sentiments
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| SUBJECT |
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 fast |
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Theory of moral sentiments (Smith, Adam) fast |
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Pluralism.
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Ethics.
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Ethics
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pluralism.
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
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Education -- Philosophy
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Ethics
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Pluralism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013003570 |
| ISBN |
9780300163759 |
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0300163754 |
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1299818943 |
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9781299818941 |
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