In Marcelo Dascal & Ora Gruengrad (eds.), Knowledge and Politics: Case Studies on the Relationship between Epistemology and Political Philosophy. Boulder, Co, USA: Westview Press. pp. 83-110 (1989)
| Authors |
|
| Abstract |
Both Adam Smith's epistemology and his politics head to a stalemate. The former is under the opposing pulls of an essentialist ideal of knowledge and of a pragmatist approach to the history of science. The latter still tries to provide a foundation for a natural law, while conceiving it as non-absolute and changeable. The consequences are (i) inability to complete both the political and the epistemological works projected by Smith; (ii) decentralization of the social order, giving rise to several partial orders, such as that of the market.
|
| Keywords | natural law republicanism Cartesianism Pragmatism Political theory Epistemology |
| Categories | (categorize this paper) |
| Reprint years | 1989 |
| Buy the book |
Find it on Amazon.com
|
| Options |
Mark as duplicate
Export citation
Request removal from index
|
Download options
PhilArchive copy
External links
(no proxy) Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server
Configure custom proxy (use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy)
Through your library
- Sign in / register and customize your OpenURL resolver..
- Configure custom resolver
References found in this work BETA
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis.Richard Bernstein - 1983 - University of Pennsylvania Press.
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition.John Greville Agard Pocock (ed.) - 1975 - [Princeton, N.J.]Princeton University Press.
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis.Richard Bernstein - 1983 - University of Pennsylvania Press.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments: The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith.Adam Smith - 1976 - Oxford University Press UK.
View all 20 references / Add more references
Citations of this work BETA
Wonder in the Face of Scientific Revolutions: Adam Smith on Newton's ‘Proof’ of Copernicanism 1.Eric Schliesser - 2005 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (4):697.
Metaphors in the Wealth of Nations.Sergio Volodia Marcello Cremaschi - 2002 - In Boehm Stephan, Christian Gehrke, Heinz D. Kurz & Richard Sturn (eds.), Is There Progress in Economics? Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 89-114.
The Scottish Enlightenment, Unintended Consequences and the Science of Man.Craig Smith - 2009 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 7 (1):9-28.
La teodicea social de Adam Smith.Sergio Volodia Marcello Cremaschi - 2010 - Empresa y Humanismo 13 (1):333-374.
L'illuminismo scozzese e il newtonianismo morale.Sergio Volodia Marcello Cremaschi - 1992 - In Marco Geuna & Maria Luisa Pesante (eds.), Passioni, Interessi, Convenzioni Discussioni settecentesche su vrtù e civiltà. Milano: Franco Angeli. pp. 41-76.
View all 10 citations / Add more citations
Similar books and articles
Against Reviving Republicanism.Geoffrey Brennan & Loren Lomasky - 2006 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 5 (2):221-252.
Newtonian Physics, Experimental Moral Philosophy, and the Shaping of Political Economy.Sergio Volodia Marcello Cremaschi - 2009 - In Richard Arena, Sheila Dow & Matthias Klaes (eds.), Open economics. Economics in relation to other disciplines. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 73-94.
Adam Smith's Republican Moment: Lessons for Today's Emancipatory Thought.David Cassass - 2013 - Economic Thought 2 (2):1.
Citizen Skeptic: Cicero’s Academic Republicanism.Scott Aikin - 2015 - Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 2 (3):275–285.
Chapter 6. A Neo-Harringtonian Moment? Whig Political Science and the Old Republicanism.Michael P. Zuckert - 2011 - In Natural Rights and the New Republicanism. Princeton University Press. pp. 150-184.
The Science of a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith.Knud Haakonssen - 1981 - Cambridge University Press.
The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith.Christopher J. Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli & Craig Smith (eds.) - 2013 - Oxford University Press.
Adam Smith's Political Philosophy: The Invisible Hand and Spontaneous Order.Craig Smith - 2005 - Routledge.
Il sistema della ricchezza. Economia politica e problema del metodo in Adam Smith.Sergio Volodia Marcello Cremaschi - 1984 - Milano, Italy: Franco Angeli.
Adam Smith's Natural Theology and the Framework of Economics.Yoshio Murakoshi - 1988 - Dissertation, University of Notre Dame
Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England.Vickie B. Sullivan - 2004 - Cambridge University Press.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2014-01-28
Total views
262 ( #41,549 of 2,507,867 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
31 ( #28,314 of 2,507,867 )
2014-01-28
Total views
262 ( #41,549 of 2,507,867 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
31 ( #28,314 of 2,507,867 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads
