Our Great Purpose

Adam Smith on Living a Better Life

By: Ryan Patrick Hanley

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Paperback | 15 June 2021

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Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life. Our Great Purpose is an illuminating guide to Smith's incomparable wisdom on how to live well, written by one of today's leading Smith scholars.

Full of invaluable insights on topics ranging from happiness and moderation to love and friendship, Our Great Purpose enables modern readers to see Smith in an entirely new light-and along the way, learn what it truly means to possess an excellent character and lead a worthy life.

About the Author

Ryan Patrick Hanley is professor of political science at Boston College. His books include Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue and Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy (Princeton).

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'Smith deftly connected all human activity into a single, philosophical portrait, and Our Great Purpose makes a compelling case for us to study it closely.'
David J. Davis Wall Street Journal

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