Edward Heath
Biographic Data
| ID | 952776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Heath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Heath |
| SIGNATURE | HEATH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY New Paltz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3789-5461 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Alexander Gillies and Adam Smith: Freemasonry and the Resonance of Self-Love
In 1766 at the Lodge of Kilwinning, Alexander Gillies, a young Scottish minister, delivered a discourse that not only manifested the influence of Adam Smith's moral theory but articulated how Christianity and freemasonry proposed distinct but complementary responses to the problem of self-love. This article, part intellectual history and part biography, examines Gillies's discourse, taking into account details of Gillies's life and establishing t…
What’s Not to See? Foucault on Invisible Political Economy in Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson
In his lectures of 1978–79, published posthumously as The Birth of Biopolitics, Michel Foucault addressed versions of liberalism in which an invisible market appears immune to government intervention. Among the thinkers discussed were Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson. This essay offers critical reflections on Foucault’s description of Smith as emphasizing the invisibility of the economy, as well as on Foucault’s interpretation of the “invisible hand”…
Education, Commerce, and Public Spirit: Craig Smith's Study of Adam Ferguson
Sir John Davies on Custom and the Common Law
Seventeenth-century English common lawyer Sir John Davies sets forth, in his Irish Reports , a provocative and interesting argument on the nature of custom and its relation to the common law. This relatively unexplored argument shows how actions may emerge from conditions of liberty and slowly acquire qualities of social benefit and agreeability that are essential if the common law is to be identified with custom. Davies not only provides a coher…
The European Rescue of the Nation-State by Alan S. Milward
Research Article| April 01 2019 The European Rescue of the Nation-State by Alan S. Milward Milward, Alan S., The European Rescue of the Nation-State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 477 pp. Edward Heath Edward Heath Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 401. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7299522 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions S…
The Kingdom of Freedom in the Garden of God: Ferguson's Postulates of Moral Action
Similar to Immanuel Kant, Adam Ferguson links freedom of the will, the existence of God, and immortality to the possibility of moral conduct. We explore these three dimensions of Ferguson's thought across several of his works. Ferguson's account of these postulates of morality not only anticipates Kant but incorporates a religious sensibility that manifests an appeal to nature rather than scripture
Jack Russell Weinstein, Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments
In the Garden of God: Religion and Vigour in the Frame of Ferguson's Thought
Although Adam Ferguson is regarded typically as a secular thinker, the larger frame of this thought may reflect his theism. After recounting, in summary fashion, elements of Ferguson's life, the paper sets forth his embrace of standard doctrines of eighteenth-century natural theology, including the metaphysical basis between mind, activity, and moral happiness, as well as Ferguson's treatment of an important theme of Christian belief – human sinf…
Carrying Matters Too Far? Mandeville and the Eighteenth-Century Scots on the Evolution of Morals
Mandeville offers an evolutionary explanation of norms that pivots on the power of praise to affect individuals. Yet this sort of account is not mentioned by Hume or Ferguson, and only indirectly noted by Smith. Nonetheless, there are various similarities in the thought of Mandeville and these philosophers. After delineating some resemblances, the essay takes up the objection Hume poses to Mandeville: praise fails to motivate if individuals take …
Elgar Companion to Adam Smith
Adam Smith and Self-Interest
The concepts of self-interest and self-love feature prominently in both and . Various notions of self-preservation, self-interest, and self-love are distinguished, and it is shown how self-love functions less as a motive than as an orientation. Although self-love may corrupt moral perception, the impartial spectator serves as an antidote. Smith’s conception of self-interest in is a broad one and not inconsistent with the moral psychology of . Tha…
Hume's ‘Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion’. By Andrew Pyle
Art, Fame, and Commerce
In Praise of Commercial Culture. By Tyler Cowen (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), ix + 278 pp. $14.95 paper
American Academic Culture in Transformation
(2001). American Academic Culture in Transformation. The European Legacy: Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 651-653
The Course of My Life: My Autobiography
Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life - as Chief Whip, Minister of Labour, Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the Conservative Party, and Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. Writing with great candour, he offers us valuable and entertaining insights into the events of the past sixty years; including taking Britain in to the EC, the changes in the Conservative Party and the great issues of …
Rules, Function, and the Invisible Hand An Interpretation of Hayek's Social Theory
Hayek's social theory presupposes that rules are unintended consequences of individual actions. This essay explicates one kind of Hayekian explanation of that claim. After noting the kinds of rules that Hayek believes are subject to such a theory, the essay distinguishes three functional explanations advocated by Hayek. He combines one of these functional explanations with an invisible hand explanation. A schema suitable for constructing invisibl…
How to Understand Liberalism as Gardening: Galeotti on Hayek
The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions
European unity over the next ten years: From Community to union
The interest shown in the establishment of the Lothian Foundation in 1987 is an indication of the immense interest in the United Kingdom in the future of the European Community. Lord Lothian had a charismatic effect on my generation at Oxford in the late 1930s and on our thinking, whether we were Conservatives, like myself, or whether we belonged to another political party. We owe him a great debt for his contributions to the development of the E…
General Policies for International Development and Cooperation
North--South: A Programme for Survival
The 1980 Alastair Buchan memorial lecture
Heath on Whitehall Reform
Journal Article HEATH ON WHITEHALL REFORM Get access Edward Heath, Edward Heath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anthony Barker Anthony Barker Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXI, Issue 4, Autumn 1978, Pages 363–390, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054277 Published: 01 October 1978
Premier's Primer
Messages from heads of government
Old World, New Horizons: Britain, Europe and the Atlantic Alliance
Adam Smith and Self-Interest
The concepts of self-interest and self-love feature prominently in both and . Various notions of self-preservation, self-interest, and self-love are distinguished, and it is shown how self-love functions less as a motive than as an orientation. Although self-love may corrupt moral perception, the impartial spectator serves as an antidote. Smith’s conception of self-interest in is a broad one and not inconsistent with the moral psychology of . Tha…
Realism in British Foreign Policy
In the Garden of God: Religion and Vigour in the Frame of Ferguson's Thought
Although Adam Ferguson is regarded typically as a secular thinker, the larger frame of this thought may reflect his theism. After recounting, in summary fashion, elements of Ferguson's life, the paper sets forth his embrace of standard doctrines of eighteenth-century natural theology, including the metaphysical basis between mind, activity, and moral happiness, as well as Ferguson's treatment of an important theme of Christian belief – human sinf…
North--South: A Programme for Survival
Heath on Whitehall Reform
Journal Article HEATH ON WHITEHALL REFORM Get access Edward Heath, Edward Heath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anthony Barker Anthony Barker Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXI, Issue 4, Autumn 1978, Pages 363–390, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054277 Published: 01 October 1978
European unity over the next ten years: From Community to union
The interest shown in the establishment of the Lothian Foundation in 1987 is an indication of the immense interest in the United Kingdom in the future of the European Community. Lord Lothian had a charismatic effect on my generation at Oxford in the late 1930s and on our thinking, whether we were Conservatives, like myself, or whether we belonged to another political party. We owe him a great debt for his contributions to the development of the E…
Rules, Function, and the Invisible Hand An Interpretation of Hayek's Social Theory
Hayek's social theory presupposes that rules are unintended consequences of individual actions. This essay explicates one kind of Hayekian explanation of that claim. After noting the kinds of rules that Hayek believes are subject to such a theory, the essay distinguishes three functional explanations advocated by Hayek. He combines one of these functional explanations with an invisible hand explanation. A schema suitable for constructing invisibl…
Realism in British Foreign Policy
Messages from heads of government
Old World, New Horizons: Britain, Europe and the Atlantic Alliance
Premier's Primer
Heath on Whitehall Reform
Journal Article HEATH ON WHITEHALL REFORM Get access Edward Heath, Edward Heath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anthony Barker Anthony Barker Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXI, Issue 4, Autumn 1978, Pages 363–390, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054277 Published: 01 October 1978
North--South: A Programme for Survival
The 1980 Alastair Buchan memorial lecture
General Policies for International Development and Cooperation
European unity over the next ten years: From Community to union
The interest shown in the establishment of the Lothian Foundation in 1987 is an indication of the immense interest in the United Kingdom in the future of the European Community. Lord Lothian had a charismatic effect on my generation at Oxford in the late 1930s and on our thinking, whether we were Conservatives, like myself, or whether we belonged to another political party. We owe him a great debt for his contributions to the development of the E…
How to Understand Liberalism as Gardening: Galeotti on Hayek
The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions
Rules, Function, and the Invisible Hand An Interpretation of Hayek's Social Theory
Hayek's social theory presupposes that rules are unintended consequences of individual actions. This essay explicates one kind of Hayekian explanation of that claim. After noting the kinds of rules that Hayek believes are subject to such a theory, the essay distinguishes three functional explanations advocated by Hayek. He combines one of these functional explanations with an invisible hand explanation. A schema suitable for constructing invisibl…
The Course of My Life: My Autobiography
Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life - as Chief Whip, Minister of Labour, Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the Conservative Party, and Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. Writing with great candour, he offers us valuable and entertaining insights into the events of the past sixty years; including taking Britain in to the EC, the changes in the Conservative Party and the great issues of …
American Academic Culture in Transformation
(2001). American Academic Culture in Transformation. The European Legacy: Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 651-653
Art, Fame, and Commerce
In Praise of Commercial Culture. By Tyler Cowen (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), ix + 278 pp. $14.95 paper
Hume's ‘Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion’. By Andrew Pyle
Adam Smith and Self-Interest
The concepts of self-interest and self-love feature prominently in both and . Various notions of self-preservation, self-interest, and self-love are distinguished, and it is shown how self-love functions less as a motive than as an orientation. Although self-love may corrupt moral perception, the impartial spectator serves as an antidote. Smith’s conception of self-interest in is a broad one and not inconsistent with the moral psychology of . Tha…
Carrying Matters Too Far? Mandeville and the Eighteenth-Century Scots on the Evolution of Morals
Mandeville offers an evolutionary explanation of norms that pivots on the power of praise to affect individuals. Yet this sort of account is not mentioned by Hume or Ferguson, and only indirectly noted by Smith. Nonetheless, there are various similarities in the thought of Mandeville and these philosophers. After delineating some resemblances, the essay takes up the objection Hume poses to Mandeville: praise fails to motivate if individuals take …
Elgar Companion to Adam Smith
In the Garden of God: Religion and Vigour in the Frame of Ferguson's Thought
Although Adam Ferguson is regarded typically as a secular thinker, the larger frame of this thought may reflect his theism. After recounting, in summary fashion, elements of Ferguson's life, the paper sets forth his embrace of standard doctrines of eighteenth-century natural theology, including the metaphysical basis between mind, activity, and moral happiness, as well as Ferguson's treatment of an important theme of Christian belief – human sinf…
Jack Russell Weinstein, Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments
The Kingdom of Freedom in the Garden of God: Ferguson's Postulates of Moral Action
Similar to Immanuel Kant, Adam Ferguson links freedom of the will, the existence of God, and immortality to the possibility of moral conduct. We explore these three dimensions of Ferguson's thought across several of his works. Ferguson's account of these postulates of morality not only anticipates Kant but incorporates a religious sensibility that manifests an appeal to nature rather than scripture
The European Rescue of the Nation-State by Alan S. Milward
Research Article| April 01 2019 The European Rescue of the Nation-State by Alan S. Milward Milward, Alan S., The European Rescue of the Nation-State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 477 pp. Edward Heath Edward Heath Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 401. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7299522 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions S…
Education, Commerce, and Public Spirit: Craig Smith's Study of Adam Ferguson
Sir John Davies on Custom and the Common Law
Seventeenth-century English common lawyer Sir John Davies sets forth, in his Irish Reports , a provocative and interesting argument on the nature of custom and its relation to the common law. This relatively unexplored argument shows how actions may emerge from conditions of liberty and slowly acquire qualities of social benefit and agreeability that are essential if the common law is to be identified with custom. Davies not only provides a coher…
What’s Not to See? Foucault on Invisible Political Economy in Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson
In his lectures of 1978–79, published posthumously as The Birth of Biopolitics, Michel Foucault addressed versions of liberalism in which an invisible market appears immune to government intervention. Among the thinkers discussed were Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson. This essay offers critical reflections on Foucault’s description of Smith as emphasizing the invisibility of the economy, as well as on Foucault’s interpretation of the “invisible hand”…
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