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" Adam Smith and the character of virtue / "
Ryan Patrick Hanley.
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1044278
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b798648
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Hanley, Ryan Patrick,1974-
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Adam Smith and the character of virtue /\ Ryan Patrick Hanley.
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages)
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0511580576
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: 0511580894
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: 0521188237
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: 0521449294
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: 9780511580574
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: 9780511580895
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: 9780511581212
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: 9780521188234
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: 9780521449298
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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."
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Focusing on Smith's analysis of the psychological and social ills endemic to commercial society--anxiety and restlessness, inauthenticity and mediocrity, alienation and individualism--the book argues that Smith sought to combat corruption by cultivating the virtues of prudence, magnanimity, and beneficence. --from publisher description.
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Smith, Adam,1723-1790.
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Smith, Adam (Philosoph)
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
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Smith, Adam,1723-1790.
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Smith, Adam,1723-1790.
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Whitman College-- Memorial bookplates-- Class of 1949.
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Ethics, Modern-- 18th century.
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Virtue.
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Dygd.
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Ethics, Modern.
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Etik-- 1800-talet.
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SELF-HELP-- Personal Growth-- Happiness.
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Tugend
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Tugendethik
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Virtue.
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| Dewey Classification
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179/.9
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B1545.Z7H36 2009eb
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5,1ssgn
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