… Therefore, when in this book I treat Smith as a “systematic philosopher,” I mean to describe
Smith’s interest in contributing to (i) the development of particular intra-scientific systems (…

… This consists of the claims (1) that Smith was a systematic philosopher—that he should be …
was a ‘public thinker’, in the sense that he was concerned about the effect on public life of his …

… various paradoxes that Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker posits,
opening up new perspectives in the study of Smith. According to Schliesser, Adam Smith had two …

… and an asset to Adam Smith’s expansive readership across disciplinary divides. The book
investigates the systematic nature of Smith’s work, not, as one might expect, as an economic …

… As I have said before, natural theology constituted the primary division of moral philosophy
as it was taught at Glasgow by Smith. We have no systematic exposition of this part of his …

… In the middle of the eighteenth century, however, economic thinking entered upon a more
deliberate and systematic phase. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in releasing England from conti…

… Routledge Philosophersis a major series of introductions to the great Western philosophers.
Each book places a major philosopher or thinker in historical context, explains and …

… Adam Smith … Adam Smith was taught in a burgh school in Kirkcaldy, and later in the normal
courses of a Scots university he built up the knowledge, methods and aims of his own thinking…

… philosophers who reject the idea that philosophy is well-suited to offer justifications. Smith’s …
understood moral philosophy as consisting in the attempt “to fill in a systematic explanatory …

… had been given to a Philosopher who for his own glory and for the benefit of mankind had
enlightened the world by the most profound and systematic treatise on the great objects of …