The Spirit of Smithian Laws

<p><em>The Spirit of Smithian Laws</em> discusses Adam Smith's ethics. His impartial-spectator process is a dynamic call upward enabling one to better sustain his or her locus of affirmation to better cohere as a just human being. The puzzle is always: Wherein lies <em>better</em>? Which way is <em>up</em>? Smith's approach to the puzzle runs against foundationalism. His ethical thought is here called <em>beholderism</em>. It is organized by organons chief of which is the notion of a beholder who is God or who is God-like in knowledge and universal benevolence (if not more). The chapters are:</p><p></p><ol><li>Major Themes and Ambling through a Few Spirals</li><li>Who Is Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator?</li><li>Beholderism: In Praise of Adam Smith's Organon and Allegory</li><li>Hume and Smith on Utility Agreeableness Propriety and Moral Approval</li><li>Adam Smith's Nonfoundationalism</li><li>Ought Is an Is regarding What is Owed to God/Joy: On the Positive-Normative Distinction</li><li>The Circumstantiality of Bivariate Relationships in TMS</li><li>In a Word or Two Placed in the Middle</li><li>Smith's Attitude toward Rousseau</li><li>TMS's Appeal Moves with Openness to Nonfoundationalism: 35 Critics 1765-1949</li><li>Circa 1800</li></ol>