The hidden theology of Adam Smith
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8076336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Hill (0000-0002-9098-7800, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-2567 • E-ISSN: 1469-5936 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/713765225 |
| OpenAlex | W2161511225 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 58 |
| References cited | 42 |
This paper contests late readings of Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' as an essentially secular device. It is argued that Smith's social and economic philosophy is inherently theological and that his entire model of social order is logically dependent on the notion of God's action in nature. It will be shown that far from being a purely secular, materialist or evolutionist approach Smith works from the argument from design to construct a model that is teleological and securely located in the chain of being tradition. His focus upon happiness as the Final Cause of nature renders improbable any claims for proto-evolutionism in his work while his arguments about the deliberate endowment of defects in the human frame make no sense without the supposition of design and purpose in nature
Action (physics · Adam smith · Argument (complex analysis · Construct (python library · Economics · Epistemology · Happiness · Invisible hand · Materialism · Neoclassical economics · Occam's razor · Order (exchange · Teleological argument · Teleology · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Law · Philosophy
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
Adam Smith and the History of the Invisible Hand
La acción de Dios, la felicidad y el libre mercado en Adam Smith
Adam Smith and Josiah Tucker on Restructuring Empire
The Edifying Discourses of Adam Smith
The other invisible hand. The social and economic effects of theodicy in Vico and Genovesi
The theological stems of modern economic ideas
Recognizing Resentment
The market order as metaphysical loot
A Tale of Two Capitalisms
Unveiling Adam Smith’s Invisible Hands
Through a Mirror Darkly
The Hidden Adam Smith in His Alleged Theology
Commerce as cooperation with the deity
Market research as ascetic detachment
La problemática posición de Adam Smith acerca de la suerte moral
The Symptomatological Imagination
Political Economy as an Ecumenical Creed
Das Adam Smith Problem
The government of life
What is Economic Theology? A New Governmental-Political Paradigm
Adam Smith, Settler Colonialism, and Limits of Liberal Anti-imperialism
A dam S mith, Ethicist
Adam Smith et la physique de Newton
Adam Smith and colonialism
Out of a slave contract
From Invisible Hand to Moral Restraint
The Vicegerent of God? Adam Smith on the Authority of the Impartial Spectator
The ‘Sub-Rational’ in Scottish Moral Science
The Man Within’
Adam Smith on the ‘Natural Principles of Religion’
The Political Theology of Laissez-Faire
The Secularization of Providential Order
Telling Fortunes
Transcending the ‘merely material’
Philosophy and science in Adam Smith’s ‘History of Astronomy’
Agamben's Theories of the State of Exception
Adam Smith, Anti-Stoic
Adam Smith’s genealogy of religion
Hayek’s vicarious secularization of providential theology
Liberalism, Colonialism and Liberal Imperialism
Impartial Spectators and Legislators
Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Ethic, and Adam Smith
The Poor Man's Son’ and the Corruption of Our Moral Sentiments
On friendship and necessitudo in Adam Smith
Nature as adversary
Spontaneous Disorder in Adam Smith’sTheory of Moral Sentiments
Concepts and Consequences of Liberty
Enlightened Nation Building
Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and Karl Marx on the Division of Labour
Disembedded markets as a mirror of society
Self-Interest, prosociality, and the moral cognition of markets
Putting Adam Ferguson in his place1
Das Adam Smith Problemand Faculty Psychology in the Antebellum North
Troubles dans la « vision du monde
On the Other (Invisible) Hand
Adam Smith's Debts to Nature
Adam Smith's "Optimistic Deism," The Invisible Hand of Providence, and the Unhappiness of Nations
Adam Smith's Science of Morals
Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
The Science of a Legislator
Wealth and Virtue
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
The Anatomy of Power
The Significance of the Doctrine of Sympathy in Hume and Adam Smith
Adam Smith and Isaac Newton
Adam Smith and the Economic Man
Adam Smith's Empiricism and the Law of Nature
Profits, Priests, and Princes
Economics, Culture and Education
Economics as Ideology
The Social and Political Thought of Adam Ferguson
Natural History in the Age of Adam Smith
Post-Industrial Society
The Scottish Moralists on Human Nature and Society
Adam Smith's Science of Morals
Intertemporal Coordination and the Invisible Hand
Adam Smith's Four Invisible Hands
The Utilitarianism of Adam Smith's Policy Advice
Adam Smith's "Natural Law" and Contractual Society
Of the Principle of Moral Estimation
Hume and the Relation of Science to Religion among Certain Members of the Royal Society
The Invisible Hand of Jupiter
Malthus' Theological Ideas andl their Influence on his Principle of Population
Adam Smith's Heavenly City
Adam Smith on the Providential Reconciliation of Individual and Social Interests
"Theological (and Hence Economic) Implications of Adam Smith's "Principles which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries
Metaphysical Beliefs and the Foundations of Smithian Political Economy
Retrospectives
Dialogues concerning Natural Religion
The Great Chain of Being
| Unique citing works | 58 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,52 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |