Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

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Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life is written by Nicholas T. Phillipson and published by Yale University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300174438 (ISBN 10) and 9780300174434 (ISBN 13).

Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Phillipson explains Adam Smith's part in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh at the time of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all Phillipson explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialog with his closest friend David Hume. --Publisher's description.