CONSIDERATIONS ON THE ADAM SMITH QUESTION

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1993

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ÖZVEREN , Eyüp

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This paper addresses itself to the consistency problem in Adam Smiths thought in a roundabout way. First, a close reading of The Theory of Moral Sentiments is attempted in order to identify Adam Smith's implicit vision of society and method of analysis. It is argued that Adam Smith conceived society as a possibility in his earlier book. While focusing on the specific question of political economy in a commercial society in The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith had to assume that the social realm was already constructed, that is, given. Despite the shift from a general science of society to the study of the particular political economy of commercial state, thematic continuity of interests and methodological affinities as reflected in the persistence of the Newtonian logic attest to the consistency and integrity of Adam Smith's thought

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