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Adam Smith's Influence on Hegel's Philosophical Writings

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  • Henderson, James P.
  • Davis, John B.

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Historians of economics and philosophy have noted Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel's debt to Adam Smith and have suggested that Hegel's analysis of civil society rests on a Smithian foundation. Laurence Dickey recognized that “Hegel's interest in the Scots coincided with the late eighteenth-century German interest in the relationship between socioeconomic processes in history and the development of civil institutions” (Dickey 1987, p. 194). Georg Lukacs emphasized that “it is highly probable that the study of Adam Smith was a turning-point in Hegel's evolution” (Lukacs 1976, p. 172). In his study of The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx, Ernest Mandel maintained that Marx discovered political economy and its importance to philosophy in his reading of Hegel. Says Mandel:

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  • Henderson, James P. & Davis, John B., 1991. "Adam Smith's Influence on Hegel's Philosophical Writings," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cambridge University Press, vol. 13(2), pages 184-204, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jhisec:v:13:y:1991:i:02:p:184-204_00
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    1. Ivan Boldyrev & Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, 2012. "Hegel’s “Objective Spirit” and its Contemporary Relevance for the Philosophy of Economics," HSE Working papers WP BRP 05/HUM/2012, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    2. Elias Khalil, 1998. "Is Justice the Primary Feature of the State? Adam Smith's Critique of Social Contract Theory," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 6(3), pages 215-230, November.
    3. Delphine Brochard & Michael Wiedorn, 2009. "Economic disorders and ethical order in Hegel's Philosophy of Right," Working Papers hal-00552130, HAL.

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