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by Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

St James’ Chronicle 274–5

  Sakamoto, T. 301n7

  science, AS on 283–4

  science of man concept

  Henry Home’s theory of 86, 88

  David Hume’ theory of 64, 65–7, 70–71, 96, 138, 140–41, 147–8, 237, 279–82

  religion/theology and 66–7, 280–81, 292–3

  AS’s theory of 2–3, 4, 6–7, 65–6, 67, 71, 88, 89, 93, 101,103, 157–8, 190, 221, 237–8, 279–82; as incomplete 3, 6, 261, 279–80; influences on 146; see also Theory of Moral Sentiments

  see also human nature

  Scott, Campbell (brother of Duke of Buccleuch) 189, 199

  Scott, Lady Frances 304n51

  Scott, W. R.

  Adam Smith as Student and Professor 285, 286, 290, 298

  Francis Hutcheson … 290

  Scott, Sir Walter 260

  Scottish Enlightenment 5, 39–40, 54, 65, 67, 141, 149, 167, 179, 190, 225, 237, 243

  in Edinburgh 75, 79, 81, 88, 144

  in Glasgow 128–30

  Scottish history/politics 5, 9, 31, 32, 73–7

  clan system 83, 84–5

  see also Anglo-Scottish relations; Jacobite rebellion

  Select Society 81, 87, 113, 119, 145, 155, 180–81, 296n42

  Seven Years War, 1756–63 185, 187, 188, 200, 256

  Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl

  Characteristicks of Men … 46–7; Bernard Mandeville’s critique of 47–8, 98, 295n17

  as a deist 47, 50

  writing style 97–8

  Shelburne, first Earl 159, 166, 168, 179, 184

  Shelburne, second Earl 169–70, 201, 258, 259, 263

  Sher, R. B. 300

  Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment … 294

  The Enlightenment and the Book … 300

  Sidney, Algernon 54

  Simson, John, as Glasgow University Professor of Divinity 33, 34, 42

  Simson, Robert (nephew of John Simson)

  as Glasgow University Professor of Mathematics 24, 34, 42, 167, 171

  AS, his influence on 24–5

  Skinner, A. S. 178, 302

  A System of Social Sciences … 300

  Skinner, Q.: Reason and Rhetoric … 297

  Smith, Adam (AS)

  administrative abilities 130, 158, 170–71, 276

  biographies of 5–8, 285, 286–7; see also individual authors

  birth/baptism 9, 16–17

  career 1, 2, 4–5; see also individual posts

  character 1, 3, 4, 5–6, 8, 56, 59, 121, 135–6, 159, 171, 184, 202, 248, 259–60, 275–7, 284, 301n30

  childhood 4, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 23

  correspondence see individual correspondents

  documentary sources on 4–6; students notes 6–7, 91, 92, 100–101, 105, 107, 172

  education: primary (burgh school) 10, 17–21, 23, 36; university 2, 4, 10, 18, 23, 24–5, 39–42, 43, 45, 49, 50, 56, 59, 60–64, 72, 291

  family 8, 9, 11, 14, 267; see also individual family members

  financial position 72, 182, 209, 2`4, 253, 257, 266

  guardians under his father’s will 14, 15, 58, 291

  health 2, 3, 4, 16–17, 136–7, 179, 208, 210, 258, 267, 268, 302; as a hypochondriac 2, 179, 302

  intellectual ideas/development 2–3, 4, 7, 23, 24–5, 87–8, 105, 117–18, 296–7

  lecturing style 90, 92, 134–5, 276

  library 18, 19, 59, 131, 248

  linguistic abilities 18, 40–41, 60–61

  papers/publications 2, 3, 4, 6, 89, 105, 145; posthumous destruction of unpublished papers 3, 4, 209, 248, 279; see also individual titles

  personal appearance 5, 56

  private life 136, 192–3, 257, 259–60

  religious beliefs 58, 84, 132, 133, 244, 281

  reputation 1–2, 6, 135, 136, 166–7, 170, 253, 254, 260, 263, 267–8, 275–7

  his students, relationship with 135–6, 168, 182–3

  his will 3, 209, 279

  writing style 4, 149, 162, 163

  death 3, 183, 274; obituary notices 274–5; tombstone 278

  Smith, Adam (Sr) (father of AS) 9, 15, 19

  career 9–10, 12

  financial position 10

  marriages 10

  his will 14, 15

  death 10, 14

  Smith, Adam (III) (cousin of AS) 14

  Smith, Hercules (cousin of AS) 14

  Smith, Hugh (elder half-brother of AS) 10, 14, 17

  Smith, Lilias (née Drummond) (Mrs Adam Smith Senior (I)) 10

  Smith, Margaret (née Douglas) (Mrs Adam Smith Senior (II)) (mother of AS) 10, 56, 257

  in Edinburgh 10, 256, 257

  family 10, 14

  in Glasgow 121

  health 256

  in Kirkcaldy 10, 15, 56, 201

  Conrad Metz’s portrait of 257

  AS’s relationship with 6, 10–11, 17, 39, 179, 261, 262, 291

  death 2, 10–11, 258, 261–2

  Smith, William (cousin of AS) 58–9, 85, 222, 291

  AS, correspondence with 59, 222

  ‘Smith’s Thoughts on the Contest with America …’ 212–13, 306n27

  Smout, Christopher 27, 124

  Snell, John 58

  AS at Balliol College as Snell exhibitor 2, 4, 24, 25, 56, 72, 291

  socialibility theory see moral economy

  Sonenscher, M.: Before the Deluge … 305

  sovereigns/sovereignty see nobility/sovereignty

  Spain 262

  The Spectator see Addison, Joseph

  spectator theory of virtue 2, 20–21, 22, 50, 107–8

  company of strangers concept 22–3

  Epicetus on 20, 107

  imagination and 156–7

  AS on 154–7, 164–5, 270–71, 274, 300

  Speirs, Alexander 29, 122–3

  Stevenson, John

  as Edinburgh University Professor of Logic and Metaphysics 80, 88, 90

  on rhetoric 93

  Stewart, Dugald 282, 283

  at Edinburgh University 128

  on James Oswald 16

  AS and 194

  as AS’s biographer 2, 3, 4, 10, 42, 58, 60, 94, 104, 105–6, 117, 129–30, 132, 166, 169, 171–2, 183, 194, 260, 275, 276, 285, 286, 292, 298, 304

  on Wealth of Nations 216, 217

  Stewart, Matthew (father of Dugald Stewart), as Edinburgh University Professor of Mathematics 42

  Stirling, John, as Glasgow University Principal 32–3

  Stoic ethics 19, 21, 22, 23, 45, 51, 54, 148, 149–50, 300

  Cicero on 149, 299n12

  Strahan, William

  on David Hume: My Life 247–8

  as a printer/publisher 159, 213

  AS and 159, 213, 247–8; as his publisher 10

  AS, correspondence with 10–11, 242, 243–4, 261–2

  Strang, J.: Glasgow and its Clubs 298–9

  Sutherland, L. S. and L. G. Mitchell (eds): History of the University of Oxford … 292

  Swift, Jonathan 97

  sympathy

  as deference 152–4

  definition 148–9

  David Hume on 148, 163

  pity and 149–50

  AS on 148–54, 165, 173, 282

  see also human nature

  Tacitus, AS on 99–100

  Tassie, James, his medallions of AS 5

  taste see aesthetics

  taxation 187, 188, 212, 213

  in France 195–6, 198

  public credit 234, 235

  AS on, in Wealth of Nations 231, 232, 234–6

  AS’s work on, at Board of Customs 258

  Charles Townshend on 200–201

  Temple, Sir William 97

  theatre, education and 18–19

  Theory of Moral Sentiments 2, 4, 6, 130, 170, 190, 300

  additions/revisions 159, 163, 166, 187, 201, 266, 267, 268–74, 311

  bibliographical history 154, 156, 201, 214, 248, 302

  French translation: La Métaphysique de l’âme 191–2
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br />   impact/importance 160–65, 191–2, 238, 275, 301n7, 302; criticism of 269–71, 282; in France 191–2

  print run 159

  publication 159, 160, 300

  on Racine: Phaedre 62–3

  reviews see impact/importance above

  selling price/sales figures 159

  AS on 274

  subject matter 61, 64, 101, 114, 133, 148, 169, 174, 269–74; citizenship 272–3; deference 152–4; spectator theory 154–7, 270–71; sympathy 148–54; virtue 271–4; conclusion 157

  title page 139

  writing of 137, 148, 159, 216

  writing style 248

  Thom, William 130

  Thomson, J: An Account of the Life … of William Cullen 125

  Thucydides 111

  tobacco barons 28–9, 122–3, 129, 290

  tobacco trade 25, 27–9, 122–3, 124, 129, 290

  Toulouse 186–7

  AS in, with Duke of Buccleuch 183, 185–9, 191

  see also France

  Toulouse University 186

  Townshend, Charles (father of Duke of Buccleuch) 180, 203, 304n51

  Duke of Buccleuch and 183–4, 202–3

  Alexander Carlyle on 180–81, 303n8

  as Chancellor of Exchequer 200–201

  David Hume and 180

  as an economist 188, 200

  as an orator 180–81

  AS and 159–60, 181–2, 189, 199, 200–201, 303n8

  on AS 180, 184–5

  on taxation 200–201

  death 202–3

  trade/commerce 9, 22, 23, 74, 76–7, 223

  as civilizing 137, 142, 143–4, 146–7, 175–6, 178, 179

  customs/excise 10, 12, 14, 257

  domestic/foreign, comparison of 224–6, 227

  in France 195–6, 198

  free trade see free trade

  in Glasgow 25, 26–7, 122, 123–4; tobacco trade 25, 27–9, 122–3, 124, 129, 290

  David Hume on 129, 137, 141–2, 143–4

  in Kirkcaldy 11–14; linen industry 12, 13–14, 264

  protectionism 227; see also trade liberalization

  AS on, in Wealth of Nations 114–18, 124, 129, 205, 222–30, 231, 264–6

  smugglers/smuggling 26, 27, 122

  see also economic conditions

  trade expansion 3, 11–12, 26–9, 54, 178, 205

  trade liberalization 265, 267

  see also free trade

  trade monopolies 16, 129, 229, 230, 265–6

  trade regulation 158, 195, 229, 264–5

  Navigation Acts 27, 29, 122, 229

  trading companies 265–6

  East India Company 201, 265–6

  tobacco barons 28–9, 122–3, 129, 290

  Tret’yakov, Ivan 170

  Tribe, K. (ed.): A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith 302

  Trogus: De Historiis Philippicis 18

  Tronchin, François-Louis 189

  Tronchin, Théodore (father of François-Louis Tronchin) 170, 189–90, 199

  Tuck, R.: Philosophy and Government … 290

  Tucker, Josiah 213, 275, 277

  Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques 186, 190, 192, 193

  AS on 194

  Turnbull, George 35

  Tytler, A. F. (Lord Woodhouselee): Memoirs … of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames 89, 90, 294

  Ulster 27, 34

  see also Ireland

  understanding, imagination and 96

  United States see American colonies; Anglo-American relations

  universities 79, 81

  philosophy curriculum 31–2, 34, 40

  religious issues 31, 32, 33, 124, 126; Presbyterian Church and 31–2, 33, 37–8

  role 35

  see also individual institutions

  university reform 35–6

  value see price/value

  virtue 43, 154, 271–4

  prudence 271–2

  spectator theory of see spectator theory

  Vivenza, G.: Adam Smith and the Classics … 300

  Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de 58, 170, 189

  on Jean Calas 186–7

  Henriade, Henry Home on 192

  AS and 190

  Walpole, Horace 263

  Walpole Sir Robert 26, 33

  war see defence/war

  Watson, Robert 90

  Watt, James 131

  Wealth of Nations 6, 214–38

  Additions and Corrections 262, 263–6

  on Anglo-American relations 211, 212, 228–9, 235–7, 239

  bibliographical history 4, 214, 232, 258, 262, 263–4, 266, 275, 283

  historical context 307–8

  David Hume’s influence on 141

  impact/importance 1, 2, 214, 216–17, 230–31, 237–8, 239–41, 254, 267, 275, 306n1; criticism of 282–3

  Introduction/Plan 217–18

  language of 217

  publication 1, 5, 159, 214

  readership 214, 266, 267–8

  reviews see impact/importance above

  selling price/sales figures 214, 266

  AS on 194

  subject matter 2–3, 4, 16, 57, 101, 114, 133, 172, 177, 214, 216–38; America 211, 212, 228–30, 233, 235–7, 239; banking system 207–8; French economists 193–4, 195, 197, 217, 230; government 230–35; taxation 231, 232, 234–6; trade/commerce 114–18, 124, 129, 205, 222–30, 231, 264–6

  title page 214, 215

  writing of 4, 10, 188, 197, 201, 204, 205, 208, 209, 213, 216–17

  Wedderburn, Alexander 90, 136, 159, 210, 213

  as Solicitor General 253

  West, E. G. 300

  West Indies 228

  Wight, Rev. William 129

  Winch, D.: Adam Smith’s Politics … 308

  Windham, William 257

  Wishart, William, as Edinburgh University Principal 35, 83

  Wodrow, James, on Theory of Moral Sentiments 161

  Wodrow, Robert 37–8

  women, in French intellectual life 192–3

  Woodhouselee, Lord see Tytler, A. F.

  Young, Thomas 182

  Youngson, A. J.: The Making of Classical Edinburgh … 309n2

  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Contents

  Dedication

  List of Illustrations

  Acknowledgements

  Maps

  KIRKCALDY, c. 1730

  GLASGOW c. 1776

  EDINBURGH, c. 1776

  Adam Smith

  Prologue

  1: A Kirkcaldy Upbringing

  2: Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis Hutcheson’s Enlightenment

  3: Private Study 1740–46: Oxford and David Hume

  4: Edinburgh’s Early Enlightenment

  5: Smith’s Edinburgh Lectures: a Conjectural History

  6: Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, 1. 1751–9

  7: The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Civilizing Powers of Commerce

  8: Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, 2. 1759–63

  9: Smith and the Duke of Buccleuch in Europe 1764–6

  10: London, Kirkcaldy and the Making of the Wealth of Nations 1766–76

  11: The Wealth of Nations and Smith’s ‘Very violent attack … upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain’

  12: Hume’s Death

  13: Last Years in Edinburgh 1778–90

  Epilogue

  Illustrations

  Notes and Sources

  Bibliography of Works Cited

  Index

 

 

 
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