Moral imagination: from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling/
Himmelfarb, Gertrude
Moral imagination: from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling/ Gertrude Himmelfarb - 2nd. - Lanbam: Rowman & littlefield publishers, 2012. - xii,313p.
Adam Smith : political economist cum moral philosopher
Edmund Burke : apologist for Judaism?
George Eliot : the wisdom of Dorothea
Jane Austen : the education of Emma
Charles Dickens : "a low writer"
Benjamin Disraeli : the Tory imagination
John Stuart Mill : the other Mill
Walter Bagehot : a divided nature
Lord Acton : the historian as moralist
Alfred Marshall : the economics of chivalry
John Buchan : an untimely appreciation
The Knoxes : a God-haunted family
Michael Oakeshott : the conservative disposition
Winston Churchill : quite simply, a great man
Lionel Trilling : the moral imagination
The Moral Imagination describes how some of the most provocative thinkers of modern times, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared a moral passion that permeated their work. The second edition includes a revised introduction and three new essays on Adam Smith, Lord Acton, and Alfred Marshall
9781442218291
Philosophy, Modern
Political science Philosophy
190 / HIM-M
Moral imagination: from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling/ Gertrude Himmelfarb - 2nd. - Lanbam: Rowman & littlefield publishers, 2012. - xii,313p.
Adam Smith : political economist cum moral philosopher
Edmund Burke : apologist for Judaism?
George Eliot : the wisdom of Dorothea
Jane Austen : the education of Emma
Charles Dickens : "a low writer"
Benjamin Disraeli : the Tory imagination
John Stuart Mill : the other Mill
Walter Bagehot : a divided nature
Lord Acton : the historian as moralist
Alfred Marshall : the economics of chivalry
John Buchan : an untimely appreciation
The Knoxes : a God-haunted family
Michael Oakeshott : the conservative disposition
Winston Churchill : quite simply, a great man
Lionel Trilling : the moral imagination
The Moral Imagination describes how some of the most provocative thinkers of modern times, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared a moral passion that permeated their work. The second edition includes a revised introduction and three new essays on Adam Smith, Lord Acton, and Alfred Marshall
9781442218291
Philosophy, Modern
Political science Philosophy
190 / HIM-M