A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009) and Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in ...

Series exploring the life and work of Scottish philosophers Adam Smith and David Hume. Smith was known as the 'father of modern economics' and Hume was considered an architect of the Enlightenment ...

Adam Smith loved books, and he used the library ... “Annotating books was common in the 18th century, reflecting the Enlightenment practice of ‘thinking’ through a text rather than ...