M Schwarze
Biographic Data
| ID | 144302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Schwarze |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwarze |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARZE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8063-9941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Riccardo Bonfiglioli. Human Nature, Mind, and the Self in Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy
Leisure and the Market
Adam Smith has been recognized as an important theorist of labor, but he is also a sophisticated and underappreciated thinker on leisure, offering distinctive insights into its meaning, value, and social conditions. In contrast to recent definitions of leisure as time free from objectively necessary activities, Smith conceives of leisure as freedom from toil and anxiety—a release from the intense physical and psychological demands of self-preserv…
“We the People”
An honest man
John Locke's educational program has long been considered to have two primary aims: to habituate children to reason and to raise children capable of meeting the demands of citizenship that he details in his Two Treatises of Government. Yet Locke's educational prescriptions undermine citizens’ capacity for honesty, a critical political virtue for Locke. To explain how Locke's educational prescriptions are self-undermining, we turn to Rousseau's ex…
Adam Smith on Education as a Means to Political Judgment
Even the most zealous interpreters of Adam Smith as an advocate of free markets and commercial progress have long acknowledged his support for public education. Yet the comparatively little scholarship on Smith’s educational theory never fully articulates his defense of public education, often framing it as a corrective to economic and moral problems generated by the market while ignoring its political importance. We argue here that Smith saw pub…
Recognizing Resentment
We typically think of resentment as an unjustifiable and volatile emotion, responsible for fostering the worst political divisions. Recognizing Resentment argues instead that sympathy with the resentment of victims of injustice is vital for upholding justice in liberal societies, as it entails recognition of the equal moral and political status of those with whom we sympathize. Sympathizing with the resentment of others makes us alive to injustic…
Kant on Humiliation, Respect, and the Moral Preconditions for Political Right
Democratic theorists often frame humiliation as psychologically and politically corrosive, casting significant doubt on its place in a decent liberal society. Yet humiliation can engender rather than eliminate respect when it is non-coercive and revelatory of equal moral capacity—what I call "reflective humiliation." I argue here that Kant, a paradigmatic liberal, suggests humiliation can force us to confront the inconsistency between our self-co…
James Wilson’s Science of Politics and the Moral Psychology of American Constitutionalism
We use James Wilson’s institutional science of politics as a lens for viewing his broader understanding of American constitutionalism. Wilson accepted the “Madisonian” view that government institutions should be designed to check humans’ vicious tendencies, both among the people and within government. But he also thought they could be carefully crafted to simultaneously encourage humans’ other-regarding passions and innate moral propensities, the…
Mutual Sympathy and the Moral Economy
Contemporary concerns with the prospects for capitalism and its potentially deleterious effects are an episode in an ongoing debate over commercial society going back nearly three centuries. Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were leading figures on opposed sides in the eighteenth-century debate, and yet scholars have recently highlighted the remarkably similar way Smith and Rousseau both diagnose the potential psychological, moral, and economi…
The Rhetoric of Sincerity
The study of rhetoric has recently undergone a revival in political theory as a response to deliberative democratic approaches that value reason over affect in the political sphere. Most rhetorical revivalists look to Aristotle and develop accounts of ethos (character) that privilege the epistemic dimensions of trust, while overlooking the importance that considerations of propriety play in shaping the political speech of democratic leaders. We r…
Spontaneous Disorder in Adam Smith’sTheory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith is celebrated for championing spontaneous order, most famously with regard to economic markets but more recently in his moral and political theory. Yet scholars who see an “invisible hand” at work in creating psychological harmony and political order often underestimate the disharmony endemic to moral spectatorship, most importantly with regard to the critical issue of justice. We show that resentment, the inherently discordant passion…
Landschaft für die Erholung am Beispiel der Seeuferplanung am Bodensee, Kanton Thurgau
No abstract available
The Rhetoric of Sincerity
The study of rhetoric has recently undergone a revival in political theory as a response to deliberative democratic approaches that value reason over affect in the political sphere. Most rhetorical revivalists look to Aristotle and develop accounts of ethos (character) that privilege the epistemic dimensions of trust, while overlooking the importance that considerations of propriety play in shaping the political speech of democratic leaders. We r…
Spontaneous Disorder in Adam Smith’sTheory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith is celebrated for championing spontaneous order, most famously with regard to economic markets but more recently in his moral and political theory. Yet scholars who see an “invisible hand” at work in creating psychological harmony and political order often underestimate the disharmony endemic to moral spectatorship, most importantly with regard to the critical issue of justice. We show that resentment, the inherently discordant passion…
Kant on Humiliation, Respect, and the Moral Preconditions for Political Right
Democratic theorists often frame humiliation as psychologically and politically corrosive, casting significant doubt on its place in a decent liberal society. Yet humiliation can engender rather than eliminate respect when it is non-coercive and revelatory of equal moral capacity—what I call "reflective humiliation." I argue here that Kant, a paradigmatic liberal, suggests humiliation can force us to confront the inconsistency between our self-co…
James Wilson’s Science of Politics and the Moral Psychology of American Constitutionalism
We use James Wilson’s institutional science of politics as a lens for viewing his broader understanding of American constitutionalism. Wilson accepted the “Madisonian” view that government institutions should be designed to check humans’ vicious tendencies, both among the people and within government. But he also thought they could be carefully crafted to simultaneously encourage humans’ other-regarding passions and innate moral propensities, the…
Adam Smith on Education as a Means to Political Judgment
Even the most zealous interpreters of Adam Smith as an advocate of free markets and commercial progress have long acknowledged his support for public education. Yet the comparatively little scholarship on Smith’s educational theory never fully articulates his defense of public education, often framing it as a corrective to economic and moral problems generated by the market while ignoring its political importance. We argue here that Smith saw pub…
Mutual Sympathy and the Moral Economy
Contemporary concerns with the prospects for capitalism and its potentially deleterious effects are an episode in an ongoing debate over commercial society going back nearly three centuries. Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were leading figures on opposed sides in the eighteenth-century debate, and yet scholars have recently highlighted the remarkably similar way Smith and Rousseau both diagnose the potential psychological, moral, and economi…
Landschaft für die Erholung am Beispiel der Seeuferplanung am Bodensee, Kanton Thurgau
No abstract available
Spontaneous Disorder in Adam Smith’sTheory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith is celebrated for championing spontaneous order, most famously with regard to economic markets but more recently in his moral and political theory. Yet scholars who see an “invisible hand” at work in creating psychological harmony and political order often underestimate the disharmony endemic to moral spectatorship, most importantly with regard to the critical issue of justice. We show that resentment, the inherently discordant passion…
The Rhetoric of Sincerity
The study of rhetoric has recently undergone a revival in political theory as a response to deliberative democratic approaches that value reason over affect in the political sphere. Most rhetorical revivalists look to Aristotle and develop accounts of ethos (character) that privilege the epistemic dimensions of trust, while overlooking the importance that considerations of propriety play in shaping the political speech of democratic leaders. We r…
James Wilson’s Science of Politics and the Moral Psychology of American Constitutionalism
We use James Wilson’s institutional science of politics as a lens for viewing his broader understanding of American constitutionalism. Wilson accepted the “Madisonian” view that government institutions should be designed to check humans’ vicious tendencies, both among the people and within government. But he also thought they could be carefully crafted to simultaneously encourage humans’ other-regarding passions and innate moral propensities, the…
Mutual Sympathy and the Moral Economy
Contemporary concerns with the prospects for capitalism and its potentially deleterious effects are an episode in an ongoing debate over commercial society going back nearly three centuries. Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were leading figures on opposed sides in the eighteenth-century debate, and yet scholars have recently highlighted the remarkably similar way Smith and Rousseau both diagnose the potential psychological, moral, and economi…
Recognizing Resentment
We typically think of resentment as an unjustifiable and volatile emotion, responsible for fostering the worst political divisions. Recognizing Resentment argues instead that sympathy with the resentment of victims of injustice is vital for upholding justice in liberal societies, as it entails recognition of the equal moral and political status of those with whom we sympathize. Sympathizing with the resentment of others makes us alive to injustic…
Kant on Humiliation, Respect, and the Moral Preconditions for Political Right
Democratic theorists often frame humiliation as psychologically and politically corrosive, casting significant doubt on its place in a decent liberal society. Yet humiliation can engender rather than eliminate respect when it is non-coercive and revelatory of equal moral capacity—what I call "reflective humiliation." I argue here that Kant, a paradigmatic liberal, suggests humiliation can force us to confront the inconsistency between our self-co…
An honest man
John Locke's educational program has long been considered to have two primary aims: to habituate children to reason and to raise children capable of meeting the demands of citizenship that he details in his Two Treatises of Government. Yet Locke's educational prescriptions undermine citizens’ capacity for honesty, a critical political virtue for Locke. To explain how Locke's educational prescriptions are self-undermining, we turn to Rousseau's ex…
Adam Smith on Education as a Means to Political Judgment
Even the most zealous interpreters of Adam Smith as an advocate of free markets and commercial progress have long acknowledged his support for public education. Yet the comparatively little scholarship on Smith’s educational theory never fully articulates his defense of public education, often framing it as a corrective to economic and moral problems generated by the market while ignoring its political importance. We argue here that Smith saw pub…
Riccardo Bonfiglioli. Human Nature, Mind, and the Self in Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy
Leisure and the Market
Adam Smith has been recognized as an important theorist of labor, but he is also a sophisticated and underappreciated thinker on leisure, offering distinctive insights into its meaning, value, and social conditions. In contrast to recent definitions of leisure as time free from objectively necessary activities, Smith conceives of leisure as freedom from toil and anxiety—a release from the intense physical and psychological demands of self-preserv…
“We the People”
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