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ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY
No full textAdam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of commercialism. In two historical case studies Smith shows the capacity of commercial society to regenerate itself. This potent capacity suggests that commercial society is inevitable. At a certain point in time it also overcomes the major obstacles to its permanence. Smith's philosophy of history anticipates the end of history views of Kant and Hegel.Political Economy,
How Might Adam Smith Pay Professors Today?
No full textAdam Smith’s proposal for paying professors was intended to induce increased faculty knowledge. If students have imperfect information about what they learn, and universities can only imperfectly measure the input of faculty time in student learning, publications may be used to measure faculty knowledge. If professors’ ability to publish is positively related to their ability to produce student learning, which universities can imperfectly measure, publications may be necessary to attract more able professors. Since research signals faculty knowledge, schools that do not value publications per se could require higher publication standards and pay higher wages than schools that value only publications.
Stand der Sicherheit, Stand der Knechtschafft, und Stand der Herrlichen Freyheit der Kinder Gottes : Allen denen, welche begierig sind, sich selbst kennen zu lernen ... Statt eines Spiegels vor Augen gestellet
No full textvon M. Adam Bernd, Ehemaligen Prediger und Catech. bey der Peters-KirchenVorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Leipzig, Zu haben bey Johann Samuel Heinsio, Anno 1736
Melancholischer Diskurs und literaler Selbstmord : der Fall Adam Bernd
No full textAdam Bernd (1676 - 1748), der nach der Publikation zweier Traktate, die den Unwillen der Amtskirche hervorriefen, von seinem Amt als Prediger an der Leipziger Peterskirche resignierte, scheint mit seiner Klage recht zu haben: Zwar gehört der Selbstmörder seit der Antike zum Bild des Melancholikers, doch sind die Erklärungen der Zusammenhänge bis heute spärlich geblieben
Eine Siegs-Predigt, Ao. 1713. Bey dem damahligen im Churfürstenthum Sachsen und incorporirten Landen gefeyerten allgemeinen Danck- und Beth-Feste, nachdem der Königl. Schwedische Feld-Marschall Graff von Steinbock im Monath Majo sich und die gantze ... Armee an Ihr. Kön. Majest. in Pohlen und Chur-Fürstl. Durchl. zu Sachsen ... und Dero hohe Nordische Alliirten endlich ergeben
No full textgehalten von M. Adam Bernd, Cat. und Pred. in der Peters-KircheVorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Lejpzjg, Zufinden bey Joh. Sam. Heinsio, Buchhändl. in der Grimmischen Gasse unter Hrn. Mangolts Hause an der Ecke des Alten Neumarckts.In Fraktu
Unterschiedene Reden, mit welchen der Anfang zu dem neu aufgerichteten und aufgetragenen Catecheten-Ampte in Leipzig in denen hierzu angewiesenen Kirchen gemachet worden : Welchen auch hinzu gefüget Die Erste Predigt, So den 1. Sonntag nach Trinitatis in der Renovirten Peters-Kirche in Leipzig gehalten worden
No full text... von M. Adam Bernd, Prediger und Catech. daselbstDie Vorlage enthält insgesamt 2 WerkeAutopsie nach Ex. der ULB Sachsen-AnhaltVorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Leipzig, gedruckt, bey Christian Götzens seel. Wittwe. - Erscheinungsjahr nach Datierung der ersten Predigt bestimm
ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?
No full textThe conventional interpretation of Adam Smith is that he is a prophet of commercialism. The liberal capitalist reading of Smith is consistent with the view that history culminates in commercial society. The first part of the article develops this optimistic interpretation of Smith's view of history. Smith implies that commercial society is the end of history because 1) it supplies the ends of nature that he identifies; 2) it is inevitable; and 3) it is permanent. The second part of the article shows that Smith has some dark moments in his writings where he seems to reject completely such teleological notions. In this more civic humanist mood he confesses that commercial society does not supply the ends of nature, nor is it inevitable, nor is it permanent. Both views exist in Smith and the commentator is forced to choose between passages in Smith's work in order to support a particular interpretation of the former's view of history.Political Economy,
Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes
No full textThis essay is a preprint of an article that appeared at: Tijdschrift voor Rechstsgeschiedenis, 72 (2004), 327–57.This essay discusses Adam Smith historical jurisprudence and his use of Roman law materials in his Lectures on Jurisprudence. It argues that Smith found it difficult to maintain his theory of legal development in the face of a highly developed body of Roman law literature
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