Adam Smith and the character of virtue

The problem : commerce and corruption

Smith's defense of commercial society

What is corruption? : political and psychological perspectives

Smith on corruption : from the citizen to the human being

The solution : moral philosophy

Liberal individualism and virtue ethics

Social science vs. moral philosophy

Types of moral philosophy : natural jurisprudence vs. ethics

Types of ethics : utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics

Virtue ethics : modern, ancient, and Smithean

Interlude : the what and the how of TMS VI

The what : Sith's "practical system of morality"

The how : rhetoric, audience, and the methods of practical ethics

The how : the ascent of self-love in three stages

Prudence or commercial virtue

The challenge : from praise to prudence

Educating the vain : fathers and sons

Self-interest rightly understood

The advantages and disadvantages of prudence

Magnanimity or classical virtue

The problems of prudence and the therapy of magnanimity

Up from individualism : desert, praiseworthiness, conscience

Modernity, antiquity, and magnanimity

The dangers of magnanimity

Beneficence or christian virtue

Between care and caritas

Benevolence and beneficence and the human telos

The character and purposes of the wise and virtuous man

Wisdom and virtue and Adam Smith's apology

Epilogue: The "economy of greatness".