Ryan Patrick Hanley - What Is Our Great Purpose?
The Curious Task
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The Wealth of Nations, Book One
i think smith is remarkable. And one of the things i admire about him most as a thinker is his tremendous intellectual honesty. There's no doubt that smith was the paragon free trader. He was a champion of a very specific vision of the market orader, and had many arguments for a why it was a good thing. But he also never shies away from the critique that in some ways it might have been a bad thing, or that it brought with it certain negative consequences. So am, you know, i think there's a lot substantivey that comes out in smith at's very useful on that front, but simply as a model how to do real philosophy in
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