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As the publisher explains on the back cover, the "main objective of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy is to expand the range, variety and quality of texts in the history of philosophy which are available in English. This latest edition appears to be directed at students, with a goal no more ambitious than to make Smith's moral philosophy accessible to them in an attractive, reliable, yet inexpensive tome. Knud Haakonssen was an obvious choice for the role of editor. The principal points of interest for Smith specialists will be his footnotes and brief introduction.

This is not a variorum edition. It follows the text of the sixth edition, the last to appear in Smith's lifetime. Fortunately, Haakonssen has made important variations available in the footnotes.

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Although the paragraphs are all numbered, readers of this edition will find it difficult to work with the usual part. The page headers do not track the part, section, and chapter numbers, meaning one has to leaf through the book to find the specific pages on which the part, [End Page ] section, and chapter numbers are indicated before the paragraph numbers can be of any use.

Macfie, the editors of the Glasgow edition, Haakonssen uses footnotes only to provide biographical and bibliographical details for Smith's many historical and literary references. What commentary he offers is confined to the introduction.

Relative to the Glasgow edition, the footnotes are slightly greater in number Haakonssen has perhaps targeted undergraduate readers and added more explanatory notes accordingly and more informative he acknowledges a debt in this regard to the editors of a recent Parisian edition. Smith's Rejection of Hume's Moral Theory'. Smith is in turn revealed as generating a major break with Hume — a break which, if based on a superior theory of moral foundations as Smith thought it to be has important consequences for how we treat Smith and Hume in both the history of philosophy and contemporary moral theory.

Natural and Artificial Impartiality. Under the influence of social contract theory, political philosophers typically assume that it is the job of participants in, and only participants in, a given scheme of social cooperation to determine how it is to be run. Yet since participants in a given scheme are always biased, the formulation of fair principles or policies requires that they adopt an imagined impartial perspective—which I term artificial impartiality.

This essay argues that an easy way to improve theorizing about justice is to shift the focus from participant perspectives including their imagined, artificial constructs of impartiality to the perspective of naturally impartial spectators. While artificial impartiality must continue to play an important role in political philosophizing, it will work more effectively in conjunction with greater use of natural impartiality.

Sentimental Hearts and Invisible Hands. A review of Adam Smith by James R. A Humean Approach to Disability.

David Hume, as an Eighteenth Century empiricist, may seem to have little to offer the philosophical investigation of disability. Perhaps not unsurprisingly, then, he is noticeably absent from the discussion on disability theory. This paper argues that a close reading of the Treatise not only provides surprising support for these relational interpretations of disability, but also underpins the belief that physiological difference can be valuable to its possessor.

The Picture Theory of Disability. This thesis argues that the nature of disability is, currently, fundamentally misunderstood.

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In contrast, this thesis offers an adverbial perspective on disability and shows how disability is experienced as an increased and personally irremediable impediment to daily-living tasks or broader goals. I do not know the proper term, but name it the 'surrounded screen'. And the X-ray property. By introducing the ingenious toggling between full screen and surrounded screen has brought to the ebook one of the still missing properties of paper book: Making the reading a cosy event.

I would say that I alternate big screen and surrounded about half and half of the time. It is astonishing that the surrounded can really be read without trouble although it is given with remarkably smaller font. The X-ray property is an excellent supplement for constant looking up in Wiki.

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An improvement to lookups, because there are summaries of several lookups and sorted list of persons, events etc. But Amazon could easily take a couple of further cock steps forwards. Google maps could be provided in connection to place names. With the fine properties of measuring distance, showing road and giving prepared information in pictures and summaries. But then there is not but a cock step, but a big leap to be made by Amazon to make Kindle another Revolution of Learning. Not just looking up words in dictionaries but also saving for future needs and memorizing the word definitions just as I have made in MyeBooks.

This is a must-read for anyone interested in politics, revolutionary-era America, economics, social responsibility, and how it compares to today's political climate. You hear about the Wealth of Nations at every turn, but this is a very important piece of that puzzle and should be considered just as important if not moreso because Smith addresses the inherent goodness of man that propels him to make compassionate decisions.

It feels completely surreal to read this in today's current atmosphere. That being said the book I received was quite a bit larger than I expected it is not a small paperback , and it sometimes feels like I'm reading a textbook.

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He wrote of an "invisible hand" in this book which is MUCH different from the one we've all grown up with from high school economics. This is the passage: They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.

Firstly, this is a remarkably clear exegesis of an empirical theory of ethics that was highly influential in its time, but is little read today. It is clear and interesting and makes a good argument for the idea that there is a moral sense. It is, in fact, surprising how well the writing and reasoning stand the test of time. This is an accurate and complete edition without many of OCR problems which seem to plague other editions. If you are a professional philosopher or just enjoy ideas, this is a very sound edition for you.

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