Essays on Philosophical Subjects (Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith): 3 (Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam Smith) - Softcover

Smith, Adam

 
9780865970236: Essays on Philosophical Subjects (Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith): 3 (Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam Smith)

Synopsis

Reflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlightenment. Included are histories of astronomy, ancient logic, and ancient physics; essays on the "imitative" arts and the affinity between music, dancing, and poetry; and a critical review of Samuel Johnson's famous Dictionary. which Smith originally published in the Edinburgh Review (1755-56).

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Adam Smith was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1723. He entered the University of Glasgow at age fourteen, and later attended Balliol College at Oxford. After lecturing for a period, he held several teaching positions at Glasgow University. His greatest achievement was writing The Wealth of Nations (1776), a five-book series that sought to expose the true causes of prosperity, and installed him as the father of contemporary economic thought. He died in Edinburgh on July 19, 1790.

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