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- Taught by Francis Hutcheson<\/a><\/li>\n
- Used Hutchson’s Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiara, ethicis & jurisprudentiae naturalis elementa continuen<\/em> as his textbook when covering for the ill Thomas Craigie<\/a> in 1751 (Ross, Life of Adam Smith<\/em> 112*)<\/li>\n
- Professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, 1752-1764<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Teaching<\/h2>\n
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- Letter from A Smith, Edinburgh, 5 Sept 1751, to Dr William Cullen: \u2018You mention natural jurisprudence & politics as parts of his lecture which it would be most agreeable for me to take upon\u2026\u2019 University of Glagsow, Special Collections MS Cullen 1157<\/li>\n
- Followed Hutcheson<\/a>‘s curriculum (Cairns, ‘Ethics’ 166*)<\/li>\n
- Ethics course published as The Theory of Moral Sentiments<\/em> (1759)\u00a0(Cairns, ‘Ethics’ 166*)<\/li>\n
- Course on political regulation published as The Wealth of Nations<\/em>\u00a0(1776) (Cairns, ‘Ethics’ 166*)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Publications, Manuscripts and other Resources<\/h2>\n
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- ‘Juris Prudence or Notes from the Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms delivered in the University of Glasgow by Adam Smith, Professor of Moral Philosophy. MDCCLXVI [1766]'(Manuscript fair copy of notes taken by an unidentified student in 1763) University of Glasgow, Special Collections MS Gen 109<\/li>\n
- A Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments<\/em> (London and Edinburgh, 1759).<\/li>\n
- A Smith, Lectures On Jurisprudence<\/em>, ed RL Meek, DD Raphael and PG Stein, vol. V of the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982). [contains two reports dated 1762-63 and 1766 of Smith’s lectures on jurisprudence at Glasgow University].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Links<\/h2>\n
Brief Adam Smith biography at Northern Lights: The Scottish Enlightenment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nCreative Commons Licence<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n - A Smith, Lectures On Jurisprudence<\/em>, ed RL Meek, DD Raphael and PG Stein, vol. V of the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982). [contains two reports dated 1762-63 and 1766 of Smith’s lectures on jurisprudence at Glasgow University].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Ethics course published as The Theory of Moral Sentiments<\/em> (1759)\u00a0(Cairns, ‘Ethics’ 166*)<\/li>\n
- Used Hutchson’s Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiara, ethicis & jurisprudentiae naturalis elementa continuen<\/em> as his textbook when covering for the ill Thomas Craigie<\/a> in 1751 (Ross, Life of Adam Smith<\/em> 112*)<\/li>\n