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Part 1 Ethics: Philosophy in moral practice - Kant and Adam Smith, S.Fleischacker; rhetoric and ethics - Adam Smith on theorizing about the moralsentiment, Charles Griswold; the commerce of sympathy - Adam Smith on theemergence of sympathy, E. Heath; Hume and Smith on justice and utility, D.D.Raphael; two concepts of morality - a distinction of Adam Smith's ethics andits stoic origin, Norbert Waszek. Part 2 Utility, teleology and religion: theutilitarianism of Adam Smith's policy advice, T.D. Campbell, I.S. Ross; thetheory and practice of the wise and virtuous man - reflections on AdamSmith's responses to Hume's deathbed wish, T.D. Campbell, I.S. Ross; finalcauses in Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments, R.A. Keer. Part 3Jurisprudence: what might properly be called natural jurisprudence? KnudHaakonssen; Adam Smith on law, D.N. MacCormick; new light on Adam Smith'sGlasgow lectures on jurisprudence, Ronald Meek; Adam Smith's jurisprudence -between morality and economics, Peter Stein. Part 4 Politics: Liberalism,civic humanism, and the case of Adam Smith, E. Harpham; Scottish politicaleconomy beyond the civic tradition - government and economic development in"the wealth of nations", John Robertson; Adam Smith's second thoughts -economic liberalism and its unintended consequences, Jeremy Sheamur; AdamFerguson, Adam Smith, and the problem of national defense, Richard B. Sher;Adam Smith and the liberal tradition, in "Traditions of Liberalism", DonaldWinch. Part 5 Civil society: Women and humanity in Scottish enlightenmentsocial thought - the case of Adam Smith, Henry C. Clark; Smith, Turgot, andthe "four stages" theory, R.L. Meek; Adam Smith on feudalism, commerce, andslavery, John Salter. Part 6 The nature of Smith's theory: Historicizing the"Adam Smith problem" - conceptual, historiographical, and textual issues,Lawrence Dickey; rethinking "Das Adam Smith problem" R.F. Reichgraeber III;Adam Smith - Scottish moral philosopher as political economist, Donald Winch.Part 7 Language: Adam Smith's "Considerations on languages", C.J. Berry.