ادم اسمیت

by D.D. Raphael, د.د. رافائل, عبدالله کوثری (ترجمه)

آدام اسمیت 1723 - 1790 فیلسوف اسکاتلندی Adam Smith (Past Masters)
استاد بسیار مکتب ها، زندگی، اخلاق، اقتصاد، مقایسه ها، فلسفه، علم و تاریخ، ماخذ، برای مطالعه ی بیشتر، نمایه

Genres: Philosophy, History

134 pages, Paperback

First published March 21, 1985

About the author

د.د. رافائل

David Daiches Raphael was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School and at University College, Oxford.

Reviews

[Karl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adam Smith has become quite the figure in conversations regarding faith and economics, from John D. Mueller’s denouncement of Smith the economist to Kenneth Barnes’ appraisal of Smith the moralist. Regardless of which aspect one assesses Smith, all participants in this discussion would benefit from understanding Smith as he understood himself. D.D. Raphael’s short volume Adam Smith does just that. Writing for the Past Masters book series. Raphael was a well-known political philosopher and Smith scholar who helped edit three volumes of the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (now in reprint from Liberty Fund). The book serves as an introduction to Smith and nothing more; however, it is an introduction to Smith, rather than an introduction to Smith the moralist or Smith the economist. After an appraisal of Smith as “a master for many schools” (chap. 1), Raphael recounts the broad outline of Smith’s “Life” (chap. 2), the role of sympathy in Smith’s “Ethics” (chap. 3), an overview of Smith’s “Economics” (chap. 4), some “Comparisons” between the two preceding chapters and some other works of Smith’s (chap. 5), and a concluding chapter on Smith’s views on the relations between “Philosophy, Science, and History” (chap. 6) followed by a list of books for “Further Reading”. Besides being an excellent introduction to Smith’s thought, Raphael presents some wonderful remarks countering J.A. Schumpeter’s criticism of Smithian economics. You may find this book in a library collecting dust, but it is a dusty book worth reading.

[Amir · Rating 3 out of 5]

به عنوان یک درآمد عمومی کتاب بدی نبود. یک ستاره هم اضافه شد بابت کیفیت نثر ترجمهٔ عبدالله کوثری، که پر از ظرایف آموزنده بود، گیرم که کیفیت نثر جزء ملاک‌های اصلی کیفیت ترجمه در حوزهٔ علوم انسانی نباشد.‏

[Michael Percy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A brief but useful overview of Smith's major works. The book refutes some earlier comparisons of the idea of "sympathy" in Moral Sentiments versus Wealth of Nations and adds some of its own. If you were time poor and had to choose between this book and Smith's two main tomes, this book would be adequate but it assumes some prior knowledge of the eccentric "Father of Capitalism".