Adam smith

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ADAM SMITH

Ipinanganak noong 1723 sa Edinburgh,Scotland

Ang kanyang ina na si Margaret ay galing sa isang mariwasang pamilya

Ang kanyang ama na si Adam Smith ay namatay anim na buwan bago pa siya ipinanganak.

Latin, Matematika, History at pagsulat. Nag-aral ng Moral Philosophy sa

Glasgow University sa edad na 14 noong 1737 at nagtapos noong 1740.

Naimpluwensyahan rin siya ni Francis Hutcheson na kanyang guro at kilala rin na Pilosopo.

Snell Exhibition Naging propesor sa Glasgow University

1751 sa edad na 28.

“Scottish Enlightenment” Theory of Moral Sentiments An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the

Wealth of Nations Sa pagbabalik ni Smith sa Europe, tumira siya sa

London kung saan nakilala niya sila Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon.

"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations“ noong 1776.

Noong 1777 ay binansagan siyang “Lord rector of the University of Edinburgh”

At noong 1778 ay naging commissioner of customs sa Scotland.

Namatay siya noong July 1790.

Edmund Burke Isang Irish statesman, manunulat, Pilosopo May malaking ambag sa american revolution. “New Whigs” Pangkalahatan siyangtinatanaw bilang pilosopikal na tagapagtatag ng makabagong konserbatismo.

Samuel Johnson September 181709  –December 13 1784 Isang manunulat na ingles na may nalaking kontribusyon sa English literature. “The most famous single work of biographical art in the Whole of literature“ A dictionary of the English language. London The vanity of Human Wishes

Edward Gibbon

Mayo 8, 1737 – Enero 16, 1794 Miyembro ng parlamento Ang Kasaysayan ng Pagkahulog at Pagbagsak ng Imperyong Romano.

Francis Hutcheson Isang propesor sa Glasgow University. Bukod kay Adam Smith ay may naging malaki rin siyang impluwensiya kay David Hume na isa rin na sikat na Enlightenment thinker

“The Theory of Moral

Sentiments”

Isa sa mga sumikat na libro ni Adam Smith

Essays na tungkol sa Philosophical Subjects noong 1795, at sa hustisya,pilis,Revenue,at Arms noong 1763.

Unang na-published noong 1896.

“Wealth of Nation”

Ikalawang libro ni Adam Smith Nai-publish noong 1776 those arts which contribute to

subsistence, and to the accumulation of property, in producing correspondent movements or alterations in law and government'.

-isang linya sa ikalawang libro ni Smith.

Apat na estado ng lipunan ayon kay Adam Smith:

Hunter/gatherer Herder

Magsasaka Commerce

Mga Sikat na Linya ni Adam

Smith:

“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.”

“Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.”

“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all

other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural

produce.”

“Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges

bones with another.”

“On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of

Ambiguity.”

“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all

things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was

originally purchased.”

References: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/book-

reviews/adam-smith-an-enlightened-life/

http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2009/11/very-best-short-summary-of-adam-smiths.html

http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/08/adam-smith-intellectual

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/adam-smith-an-enlightened-life-by-nicholas-phillipson-2056881.html

http://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_smith.html

Prepared by: Marissa S.M. Mimay

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