Given this zeitgeist, a book on the moral philosophy of Adam Smith is timely indeed. While Smith may be the founder of modern economics, he was first and foremost a professor of moral philosophy. Yet ...

That’s the subject of the November Adam Smith 300 essay, written by Ryan Hanley of Boston College. What makes Smith’s philosophy of living any more worth our attention than many others that we ...

Adam Smith attended Glasgow as a student. He would later become the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow (“economics professor” was not yet a job at this point in history). Craig Smith writes ...

A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009) and Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in ...

This paper aims to spark increasing engagement with Adam Smith in the study of wellbeing ... understanding of varied valuable human ends which combines economics, moral philosophy, and a conception of ...

"Smith Adam." Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2001 ... Smith was appointed professor of logic in 1751 and then professor of moral philosophy in 1752 at the University of Glasgow.