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John Adams

Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. His exact date of his birth is

unknown but he was baptized on June 5, 1723. At the age of fifteen, Smith began

attending Glasgow University where he studied moral philosophy. In 1748 he began giving

lectures in Edinburgh where he discussed rhetoric and later he began to discuss the

economic philosophy of the "simple system of natural liberty" which he later proclaimed in

his Inquiry into Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

In 1751, Smith was appointed professor of logic at Glasgow university,

transferring in 1752 to the chair of moral philosophy. His lectures covered the field of

ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence and political economy. In 1759 he published his Theory of

Moral Sentiments, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures. This work was about those

standards of ethical conduct that hold society together, with emphasis on the general

Smith moved to London in 1776, where he published An......


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