David Hume and Adam Smith shared the same philosophical project: the construction of a ‘science of human nature ‘. Then with their writings – Hume in his economic and political ‘Essays’ and Smith in ‘The Wealth of Nations’ – they offer many systematic explanations of the changes observed in the ‘commercial society’ in Scotland in second part of the Eighteenth Century. Their observations show very large consequences of the changes with the ‘partition’ or ‘division’ in the human work. The paper develops a comparison between the theoretic options of Hume and Smith. Hume insists on the importance of the moral space in the free choice of the work for one’s life; and Smith develops in detail the manifold consequences of the ‘division of labour’, particularly economic, moral and political.
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Titolo del capitolo
Il lavoro nella ‘società commerciale’ secondo David Hume e Adam Smith
Autori
Eugenio Lecaldano
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.69
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Curatori
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1894
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919