Adam Smith By YiLun Chou

Adam Smith

Biography

The Theory of Moral Sentiments Summary

Adam Smith

the site where Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations in his home town of Kirkcaldy since re-built as Adam Smith House

In 1751, Smith was appointed professor of logic at Glasgow university

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The Wealth of Nations

*Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy Scotland in 1723. When he was 17 years old he went to Oxford. *In 1751 he became a professor of Logic at Glasgow. The next year he took the Chair of Moral Philosophy. *In 1759, he published his Theory of Moral Sentiments. *In 1776 he published his masterpiece: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. *After living in both France and London Adam Smith returned to Scotland in 1778 when he was appointed commissioner of customs for Edinburgh. *Adam Smith died on July 17th, 1790 in Edinburgh. He was buried in the Canongate churchyard.

Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) lays the foundation for a general system of morals, and is a text of central importance in the history of moral and political thought. It presents a theory of the imagination which Smith derived from David Hume but which encompasses an idea of sympathy that in some ways is more sophisticated than anything in Hume's philosophy.

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith. It is a clearly written account of economics at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, as well as a rhetorical piece written for the generally educated individual of the 18th century - advocating a free market economy as more productive and more beneficial to society.