Adam Smith and the character of virtue [electronic resource] / Ryan Patrick Hanley.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanley, Ryan Patrick, 1974-
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Smith, Adam, > 1723-1790.
Virtue.
Ethics, Modern > 18th century.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2009 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2009 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
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".