Broadie, A. (2010) Aristotle, Adam Smith and the virtue of propriety. Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 8(1), pp. 79-89. (doi: 10.3366/E1479665109000529)
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Abstract
Adam Smith's ethics have long been thought to be much closer to the Stoic school than to any other school of the ancient world. Recent scholarship however has focused on the fact that Smith also appears to be quite close to Aristotle. I shall attend to Smith's deployment of a version of the doctrine of the mean, shall show that it is quite close to Aristotle's, shall demonstrate that in its detailed application it is seriously at odds with Stoic teaching on the passions, and particularly with their teachings on anger, and shall conclude that on a central issue of ethics Smith is a good deal closer to Aristotelian than to Stoic thinking.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Broadie, Professor Alexander |
| Authors: | Broadie, A. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History |
| Journal Name: | Journal of Scottish Philosophy |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| ISSN: | 1479-6651 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1755-2001 |
| Published Online: | 01 March 2010 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2010 Edinburgh University Press |
| First Published: | First published in Journal of Scottish Philosophy 8 (1): 79-89 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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