Iain McLean reexamines the radical legacy of AdamSmith, arguing that Smith was a radical egalitarian and that his work supported all three of the slogans of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity. McLean suggests that Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments , published in 1759,...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- A Note on Citations -- Preface: A Scotsman Looks at the World -- 1. The Life of an Absent-minded Professor -- 2. A Weak State and a Weak Church -- 3. A Non-religious Grounding of Morals: Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment -- 4. Merriment and Diversion:...

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