Our great purpose: Adam Smith on living a better life

By:

Hanley, Ryan Patrick

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton University Press New Jersey 2019Description: viii, 156 pISBN:

9780691216706

Subject(s):

Conduct of life

DDC classification:

170.44 HAN

Summary: Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life. Our Great Purpose is an illuminating guide to Smith's incomparable wisdom on how to live well, written by one of today's leading Smith scholars. Full of invaluable insights on topics ranging from happiness and moderation to love and friendship, Our Great Purpose enables modern readers to see Smith in an entirely new light-and along the way, learn what it truly means to possess an excellent character and lead a worthy life

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Bodh Gaya General Stacks	PPGM	170.44 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		IIMG-004064
Book	Jammu General Stacks	Non-fiction	170.44 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		IIMJ-5855

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Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life. Our Great Purpose is an illuminating guide to Smith's incomparable wisdom on how to live well, written by one of today's leading Smith scholars. Full of invaluable insights on topics ranging from happiness and moderation to love and friendship, Our Great Purpose enables modern readers to see Smith in an entirely new light-and along the way, learn what it truly means to possess an excellent character and lead a worthy life

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