Adam Smith and the character of virtue /
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 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 versus moral philosophy
- Two types of moral philosophy : natural jurisprudence versus ethics
- Three 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".