Maiden Aunt
Colin Kidd: Adam Smith, 7 October 2010
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
by Nicholas Phillipson.
Allen Lane, 345 pp., £25, August 2010,978 0 7139 9396 7 Show More
by Nicholas Phillipson.
Allen Lane, 345 pp., £25, August 2010,
Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and moral theory
by Fonna Forman-Barzilai.
Cambridge, 286 pp., £55, March 2010,978 0 521 76112 3 Show More
by Fonna Forman-Barzilai.
Cambridge, 286 pp., £55, March 2010,
“... cohesion based not on an established religious truth or feudal hierarchy, but rather on what Fonna Forman-Barzilai describes as a ‘self-regulating method of social co-ordination’. Nevertheless, as she reminds us, notwithstanding the success of his book, Smith was far from confident that he had securely described a mechanism for independent moral ... ”
