Posted: September 22nd, 2015

Adam Smith’s views in The Wealth of Nations

 
Write an essay on one of the following topics:

(1) Summarise John Locke’s views on government, particularly “the social contract”. Critically evaluate his views. (Note: Students are permitted to give their own criticisms of Locke.)
Reading:
John Locke: Second Treatise of Government
Article “Locke’s Political Philosophy” in Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
“Notes on Locke”
“Criticisms of Locke”.

(2) Discuss Mill’s On Liberty. Critically evaluate his views. (Note: Students are
Permitted to give their own criticisms of Mill.)
Reading:
J. S. Mill On Liberty, particularly Chapter 2.
“Notes on Mill”
“Mill’s Moral and Political Philosophy”, Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.5. (These are the only sections of the article you need to read. You do not need to read the whole article.

(3) Summarise Adam Smith’s views in The Wealth of Nations. Your discussion
should include an account of the notion of the “invisible hand” and Smith’s view of the appropriate role of government. Your essay may also include a summary of the alternatives to the free market that were explored in the twentieth century, and some of the difficulties they encountered.
Reading
Notes on Smith
“Adam Smith” from The Encyclopaedia of Economics
Extract (of your own choosing) from The Wealth of Nations
Notes on History of Economics

(4) To what extent do you think that Kant on Enlightenment, Locke’s Second
Treatise of Government, Mill’s On Liberty and Smith’s The Wealth of Nations express the “core values” of Western civilization?
Reading
Kant What is Enlightenment?
Notes on Locke
Notes on Mill
Chapter 2 of Mill’s On Liberty
Notes on Smit

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