The Spirit of Smithian Laws

The Spirit of Smithian Laws discusses Adam Smith's non-foundationalist ethics. The impartial-spectator process is a dynamic call upward, to sustain one's locus of affirmation. The puzzle is always: Which way is up? Non-foundationalism advises against a foundationalist approach to that puzzle.

Chapter titles:

1. Major Themes and Ambling through a Few Spirals
2. Who Is Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator?
3. Beholderism: In Praise of Adam Smith's Organon and Allegory
4. Hume and Smith on Utility, Agreeableness, Propriety, and Moral Approval
5. Adam Smith's Non-foundationalism
6. Ought as an Is: On the Positive-Normative Distinction
7. The Circumstantiality of Bivariate Relationships in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments
8. In a Word or Two, Placed in the Middle: The Invisible Hand in Adam Smith's Tomes
9. Adam Smith's Attitude toward Rousseau
10. TMS's Appeal Moves with Openness to Non-foundationalism: 35 Critics, 1765–1949
11. Circa 1800