Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment.(Review) (book review)

Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. By Charles L. Griswold, Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 412p. $59.95 cloth, $21.95 paper.

Charles Griswold poses a series of alternatively fruitful and frustrating questions. He begins with an excellent query for consideration by moral and political theorists that he then chooses not to address: "Is there a sense in which [others'] misery is necessarily the price of our happiness" (p. 3)? Instead, it quickly becomes apparent that the motivating question of this study is to be a rather more provocative and ...

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