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Patent US5953532 - Installation and deinstallation of application programs - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign in<nobr>Advanced Patent Search</nobr>PatentsA method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented method of installing and deinstalling Windows� application programs. The present invention provides two windows. The first window displays application programs that can be installed. The second window displays application programs...http://www.google.com/patents/US5953532?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5953532 - Installation and deinstallation of application programsAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS5953532 APublication typeGrantApplication numberUS 08/779,853Publication dateSep 14, 1999Filing dateJan 3, 1997Priority dateJan 3, 1997Fee statusLapsedPublication number08779853, 779853, US 5953532 A, US 5953532A, US-A-5953532, US5953532 A, US5953532AInventorsMark Allan LochbaumOriginal AssigneeNcr CorporationExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (27), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (52), Classifications (11), Legal Events (6) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetInstallation and deinstallation of application programsUS 5953532 AAbstract A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented method of installing and deinstalling Windows� application programs. The present invention provides two windows. The first window displays application programs that can be installed. The second window displays application programs that have been installed. When a user drags and drops an application program from the first window to the second window, the application program is installed. Similarly, when the user drags and drops an installed application program from the second window to the first window, the application program is deinstalled.
What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method of installing an application program on a computer from an electronic storage device, the computer having a memory coupled thereto for storing the application program, the method comprising the steps of:transferring the application program from the electronic storage device to the memory coupled to the computer; processing an answer file located on the electronic storage device to avoid prompting a user for options; and installing the transferred application program at the computer using the processed answer file. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of transferring the application program comprises the step of copying the application program from the electronic storage device to the memory coupled to the computer.
Installation of application programs on Microsoft Windows� Platforms (e.g., Windows� 3.X, Windows 95�, and Windows NT�) typically involves running a single executable file, usually called SETUP.EXE. The SETUP.EXE program is a standard installation program that comes with an application program. It is created with various tools including those found in Development Kits sold by Microsoft Corporation.
The SETUP.EXE program creates directories, copies files, and modifies configuration files (e.g., AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, and WIN.INI files). The SETUP.EXE program also determines many hardware configuration parameters (e.g., number of drives, drive sizes, free space on drives, and processor type) and software parameters (e.g., Windows� version, Windows� path, and number of buffers). The SETUP.EXE program typically determines these parameters by requesting information from the user through the use of dialog boxes containing various controls. It can be very time consuming for the user to have to input all of this information each time an application program is installed.
Therefore, there is a need for an improved method of installing and deinstalling Windows� application programs.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION To overcome the limitations in the prior art described above, and to overcome other limitations that will become apparent upon reading and understanding the present specification, the present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented method of installing and deinstalling Windows� application programs.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram that illustrates an exemplary hardware environment for the preferred embodiment of the present invention;
Hardware Environment FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary hardware environment used to implement the preferred embodiment of the present invention. The present invention is typically implemented using a computer 100, which generally includes, inter alia, a processor, random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), a video card, bus interface, and/or other components. It is envisioned that attached to the computer 100 may be a monitor 120 (e.g., a CRT, an LCD display, or other display device), data storage devices 124, such as a hard disk, floppy, and/or CD-ROM disk drives, and peripherals 126, such as a printer. Also included in the preferred embodiment may be input devices, for example, a mouse pointing device 130 ("mouse") and a keyboard 132.
The computer 100 operates under the control of an operating system 122, such as Windows� or some other operating system, which is represented in FIG. 1 by the screen display on the monitor 120. The present invention is preferably implemented within a computer program stored in a data storage device 124, although it should be understood that, in the alternative, the principles of the invention may also be implemented within the operating system 122. In general, the routines executed to implement the present invention, whether implemented as part of an operating system or a specific application, will be referred to herein as "computer programs".
Additionally, the computer 100 (i.e., a client) may be connected to one or more other computers 150 (i.e., a server) via a network 140. The server computer 150, generally includes, inter alia, a processor, random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), a video card, bus interface, and/or other components. It is envisioned that attached to the server computer 150 may be a monitor 160 (e.g., a CRT, an LCD display, or other display device) and data storage devices 164, 180 such as a hard disk, floppy, and/or CD-ROM disk drives. The data storage device 180 can contain application programs that can be installed at the client computer 100 and install files for installing those application programs. Also included at the server computer 150 may be input devices, for example, a mouse pointing device 170 and a keyboard 172. The server computer 150 operates under the control of an operating system 162, such as the Windows� operating system or some other operating system, which is represented in FIG. 1 by the screen display on the monitor 160. Furthermore, when a user at the client computer 100 requests installation of an application program, the client computer 100 obtains the requested application program from the server computer 150.
Overview The installer/deinstaller program is a client/server based computer program. The client computer 100 currently runs under the Hewlett-Packard NewWave environment. However it is possible to develop an installer/deinstaller program that runs directly under the Windows� environment. Typically, application programs to be installed reside at the server computer 150. When a user at the client computer 100 requests that an application program be installed, the client computer 100 transfers the application program from the server computer 150.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating the steps required to perform installation, as identified in step 314. Before an application program can be installed, the application program must be prepared for installation through the installer/deinstaller program. This preparation step is called importing the application program. The import process for a Windows� application program has several steps. These steps may be performed in a different order, and many steps can be performed simultaneously with others. The import process involves transferring the files required to install the application program (i.e., the install files) from the install media (e.g., CD, Tape, or Flex Disk) to an area accessible by the client computer 100. In step 408, the installer/deinstaller program transfers the install files from the data storage device 180 coupled to the server computer 150 to the data storage device 124 coupled to the client computer 100. Security is enforced by encryption or by granting access to the commonly accessed area only for the time of installation. The import process also involves transferring the application program that is to be installed to an area accessible by the client computer 100. In step 410, the installer/deinstaller program transfers the application program from the data storage device 180 coupled to the server computer 150 to the data storage device 124 coupled to the client computer 100 on which the application program is to be installed. In one embodiment, the installer/deinstaller program includes an administration routine that performs the import steps.
Step 530 is a decision step in which the installer/deinstaller program determines whether a custom script is available for deinstallation. The network administrator has the option of creating a custom script or executable to perform deinstallation. The custom script may be a batch file, a Microsoft Word macro, or other similar script. A custom executable may be Windows� or DOS (i.e., this is most suitable for in-house application programs). When it is determined that a custom script or executable has been invoked, in step 532, the installer/deinstaller program waits for the custom script or executable to complete. In step 534, the installer/deinstaller program adjusts the license count.
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On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations by Samuel Fleischacker by Samuel Fleischacker - Read Online
Publisher: Princeton University PressReleased: Jan 10, 2009ISBN: 9781400826056Format: book
On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - Samuel Fleischacker
On Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
Fleischacker, Samuel.
On Adam Smith’s Wealth of nations : a philosophical companion / Samuel Fleischacker.
ISBN 0-691-11502-8 (cl : alk. paper)
1. Smith, Adam, 1723-1790. 2. Economics—Philosophy. 3. Ethics. I. Title.
HB103.S6F59 2004
330.15'3—dc21 2003042889
This book has been composed in Berkeley Book
CHAPTER ONE Literary Method
1. Obstacles to Reading Smith
4. Style and Philosophical Method
CHAPTER TWO Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
5. Epistemology
7. Philosophy of Social Science
8. Types of Evidence
9. Providentialism
CHAPTER THREE Moral Philosophy
10. Moral Sentimentalism
11. The Wealth of Nations and Moral Philosophy
12. A Moral Assessment of Capitalism?
PART II Human Nature
13. Philosophy and the Theory of Human Nature
14. Smith’s Picture of Human Nature
15. Religious Sentiments
16. Impartiality and Equality
17. Culture and History
18. From Homo Moralis to Homo Economicus
CHAPTER FIVE Self-Interest
19. WN in Context
20. Bettering One’s Condition in WN II.iii
21. Self-love in WN I.ii
22. Self-interest versus General Benevolence
23. Self-interest as an Assumption in WN
24. Smith and Hobbes: A Response to Cropsey
CHAPTER SIX Vanity
25. Vanity in TMS IV.i
26. TMS IV.i in the Light of WN
27. TMS IV.I and the 1790 Edition of TMS
28. The Importance of Vanity
29. From Homo Moralis to Homo Economicus (Reprise)
PART III Foundations of Economics
CHAPTER SEVEN Foundations of Economics
30. Natural Price/Market Price
31. Real Price/Nominal Price; Labor Theory of Value
32. The Long Term versus the Short; Growth versus Allocation; Definition of Wealth
33. Productive and Unproductive Labor
34. The Invisible Hand
CHAPTER EIGHT A Theory of Justice?
35. Some Puzzles about Smith’s Treatment of Justice
36. Smith’s Different Accounts of Justice
37. A First Argument for the Precision of Rules of Justice
38. Critical Jurisprudence and the Problems in Defining Harm
39. A Second Argument for the Precision of Rules of Justice
40. Reconstructing Smith’s Theory of Natural Justice
41. Smith’s Critical Jurisprudence in LJ and WN
CHAPTER NINE Property Rights
42. Property as Central to Justice
43. Utilitarian Accounts of Property
44. Locke, Hutcheson, and Hume on Original Ownership
45. Smith on Original Ownership
46. Property in WN
47. Taxation and Property Rights
48. Inheritance and Property Rights
49. Redistribution and Property Rights
CHAPTER TEN Distributive Justice
50. Two Meanings for Distributive Justice
51. Smith’s Contribution to the Politics of Poverty
52. A Brief History of Distributive Justice
53. The Right of Necessity
54. Smith and Natural Law Views of Property
CHAPTER ELEVEN Politics
55. Moral Vices of Politicians
56. Cognitive Vices of Politicians
57. Problems with the Private Sector
58. Law over Policy; Well-designed Institutions
59. Republics versus Monarchies; Civic Republicanism
60. National Glory; War
CHAPTER TWELVE Learning from Smith Today
This book was begun during a year’s leave underwritten by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton and the John M. Olin Foundation. More recently, a year at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois, Chicago provided me with the time and support to complete the book. I would also like to thank Kate Abramson, Thomas Brockelman, Lauren Brubaker, Lisa Downing, Charles Griswold, Ryan Hanley, David Hilbert, Rachana Kamtekar, Deirdre McCloskey, Jerry Muller, Amy Reichert, Ian Ross, Eric Schliesser, and Jeff Weintraub for helpful comments and criticism. Lori Watson provided both useful comments and extremely efficient research assistance. In addition to her editorial help, my wife, Amy Reichert, has borne the irritations attendant on writing a book with wonderful patience and understanding.
When citing Smith, I will use page numbers, rather than the subdivisions provided in the standard Glasgow edition. I also include in the text references o all the works listed below by abbreviation and page number. If I cite a text several times in a row, in a single paragraph, I provide its abbreviation the first time and include only a page number for subsequent citations.
Works by Adam Smith
Adam Smith was a philosopher before he was a social scientist, yet it remains unclear to this day what relationship his philosophical writings bear to his treatise on economics. There is little indication in the Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (WN) that the book was written by a person who had rich views on subjects ranging from scientific method to the foundation of moral judgment, and there is no explicit mention at all of Smith’s earlier published work, the much-acclaimed Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS). The apparent absence of moral concerns, in particular, from WN has puzzled many commentators. Perhaps we should view the writing of WN as a triumph of self-command, Smith’s favorite virtue: Smith contributes to the founding of social science precisely by refraining from direct moral commentary most of the time in WN, by laying out the facts of political economy mostly in an impartial tone, free of his own attitudes toward those facts. But, if so, he seems to have achieved this impartial voice too well, leading people, wrongly, to suppose that he left his moral beliefs behind when he came to write WN. It is part of my purpose to help correct this supposition, to help bring us back to the virtues that lie within and just beyond the frame of WN. Social science today often requires that one refrain from talking about virtues, but Smith does not fully carry out this suspension of moral discourse, and where he does I think we can give moral reasons for the suspension. In any case, one thing that will concern us throughout this book is the tension between moral philosophy and social science.
There are several other running themes. Among them: that Smith is best regarded as a common sense philosopher, anticipating elements in the thought of his academic successor, Thomas Reid, and certain trends in twentieth-century philosophy; that Smith has an unusually strong belief in human equality, which has important implications for both his moral philosophy and his political economy; and that Smith played a role very different from the one usually assigned to him in the history of distributive justice. But my goal in this book is not to explicate or defend any overarching thesis about Smith; it is, rather, to provide a guide to the many philosophical questions that inform WN or are raised by its conclusions. (The book is indeed meant to be readable in separate sections, such that someone interested in Smith’s views of justice, for instance, could read that section without the rest.) I hope that such a guide will be useful not just to experts, but to people coming to WN for the first time, or who have studied its political economy but never considered it from a philosophical angle.
Although Smith was a philosopher, no book of this sort has appeared before. Charles Griswold has given us a beautiful study of Smith’s entire corpus from a philosophical perspective, and there is a careful and thorough examination of Smith’s views on justice by Knud Haakonssen.¹ There are also one or two short philosophical surveys of all of Smith’s work.² But the overwhelming bulk of commentary on WN has come from economists and intellectual historians, and thus far there has been no book devoted to that work by a philosopher.³
Economists tend to argue with Smith on matters of fact rather than of principle, whereas intellectual historians tend to be more interested in the sources of an idea, or its impact, than in its justification or its implications for future times. When I call the present study a philosophical companion, I mean both that I take up issues in WN that are likely to concern philosophers and that I have tried to address those issues in the way that philosophers do. That means that my interests are above all in the arguments Smith gives for his views, and that I sometimes reconstruct his arguments in modern terms, and argue with him when it seems to me that he holds a problematic view. I hope to stimulate questions about Smith as much as to answer such questions. Many of the difficulties in Smith’s views and arguments arise from the fact that he was dealing with questions that remain difficult for us today. One model for my writing on Smith is his own account of other philosophers in Book VII of TMS. Smith respects his predecessors and reports their views faithfully, yet at the same time he translates those views into the terms of his own moral system and criticizes them where, by his lights, they fail. This is an excellent example of the philosophical history of philosophy. Philosophers tend to bring all ideas into the present tense, to look at each other’s work as if the author were alive right now and trying to persuade us of his or her ideas. They are rightly accused, sometimes, of being too uninterested in historical context when they do this, but on the other hand, it is hard to see why reasoning is worthwhile at all if ideas are merely determined by their context—if we cannot, by way of argument, rise on occasion above the prejudices and concerns of our time. That this is possible is an essential part of a philosopher’s faith, perhaps even part of the definition of philosophy, as that term has been understood since Socrates.
I do not mean by these remarks to dismiss the importance of a historical perspective on Smith, and I have tried throughout to place his ideas in the context of those who influenced him, especially his teacher Francis Hutcheson and friend David Hume. I agree very much with Quentin Skinner that one cannot discern a writer’s meaning unless one places his or her writings in the polemical context to which they responded. Yet those who follow Skinner on this have obscured the degree to which philosophers, unlike, say, political pamphleteers, see themselves as belonging not just to the polemical context of their day but also to a polemical context that spans millennia. Smith sees himself as arguing with Plato as well as James Steuart, Aristotle as well as Quesnay. He lives in two contexts: the immediate one of the eighteenth-century policies and institutions around him, and a larger one of questions that concern human beings in every age. What he says as an inhabitant of the second context we can and must bring into conversation with what we ourselves say in that capacity. What he says as an inhabitant of eighteenth-century Europe can be brought into our own world only with considerably more caution. I try to strike a balance between these two aspects of his writing, between what he said to his contemporaries and what he might say to us. We can learn from Adam Smith today, but to do so, we need to distinguish carefully between his local and his universal teachings.
I begin with Smith’s writing style, since I will contend throughout this book that scholars have persistently misread the Wealth of Nations (WN), and I’d like to show right off why it is easy to do that. WN tends to appear, in both scholarly and popular literature, by way of striking snippets. One can properly grasp its teachings, however, only by engaging in the painstaking exercise of reading the long, elaborate arguments from which the snippets get snipped. So I begin with some warnings about how not to read Smith and some suggestions about what can be gained by submitting to the discipline of reading Smith slowly, of treating him as the refined eighteenth-century belles-lettrist that he set out to be.
By comparison with most philosophers, Adam Smith is easy to read. There is no abstract jargon, as in Kant or Hegel, no stilted syntax, as in Locke, and there are few passages with the subtle argumentation to be found in Descartes or Hume. Smith the economist is also easier to read than many other social scientists, abjuring technical coinages and mathematical algorithms in favor of historical narrative and explanations, laced with vivid examples drawn from ordinary life. Smith also organizes his material very clearly, announcing in the beginning of a chapter or section which two or three items he will be discussing and then proceeding to take up those items one by one, in the order in which he listed them. I suspect that many scholars are drawn to working on Smith by the ease and pleasure of reading him, and he has certainly thereby lent himself to quotation, by everyone from teachers of elementary economics to public intellectuals.
The clarity of these quotations can be misleading, however. This is partly because Smith is, even on the surface, a more complex writer than might appear from such famous lines as the one about appealing to the self-interest of butchers and bakers. In addition, Smith was well aware of the uses of rhetoric, and his seeming straightforwardness does not preclude him from making use of a variety of literary devices, either for polemical purposes or to add levels of suggested meaning to his literal one. Finally, the very project of writing philosophy and political economy in appealing, everyday language flows from a sophisticated theory about how human knowledge works, which itself needs to be grasped in order to make clear the full import of Smith’s teachings. Let us take up each of these factors in turn.
When I say that Smith’s writing is more complex than it seems even on a surface level, I mean above all to draw attention to his irony and his prolixity, two features of his style that are not uncommon in eighteenth-century writers, but that are rather more pronounced, and carry more weight, in Smith than in many of his peers. Smith’s conception of morality made the way one expresses one’s emotions central to virtue, and he believed strongly that modes of literary expression could reflect character. In his lectures on rhetoric he told his students, When the characters of a plain and a simple man are so different we may naturally expect that the stile they express themselves in will be far from being the same (LRBL 38).¹ Cicero’s elegance and propriety make evident, he says, that the author conceive[d] himself to be of importance, and dignity (LRBL 159). Xenophon’s style expresses his simplicity and innocence of manners (LRBL 169). We may, accordingly, expect the ironic and prolix features of Smith’s style to express something about his character, or at least about the character he wished to present to his readers. And in any case we must be careful, as many readers have not been, to recognize Smith’s irony when we see it, and to unpack his unhurried way of getting to a point, or we will misunderstand even the literal level of his meaning.
The irony is sometimes obvious: The fortunate and the proud wonder at the insolence of human wretchedness, that it should dare to present itself before them, and with the loathsome aspect of its misery presume to disturb the serenity of their happiness (TMS 51).
But on other occasions it can be hard to tell whether Smith is being ironic or not. About love, he says that [t]he passion appears to every body, but the man who feels it, entirely disproportioned to the value of the object, and that though a lover may be good company to his mistress, he is so to nobody else (TMS 31). Is this simply supposed to describe a fact about love, or does it include some gentle mockery of that passion?
In pondering this question, we should bear in mind two points. First, Smith was a great admirer of Jonathan Swift, who was supremely gifted at stating the most outrageous of propositions in the most moderate of tones. Often, Smith emulates this tight-lipped way of conveying moral outrage. It fits well with his theory of how to express emotions, and especially anger, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS): to win the sympathy of our audience, he says, we must lower [ . . . our] passion to that pitch, in which the spectators are capable of going along with [us] (TMS 22; on anger specifically, see 37–8). But Smith also differs from Swift in an important respect, and that brings us to a second reason for his understated tone. Swift, in part perhaps out of a gloomy disposition and in part, certainly, out of deep Pauline convictions, is willing to condemn human nature entirely. Smith’s strongly naturalistic orientation, his belief that moral standards—the very standards we might use to condemn human nature—arise out of human nature itself, leads him instead to try to understand what good purposes even bad features of human nature might serve. The difficulty of this commitment is something he worries about explicitly. He says, for instance, about our reaction to the consistently sorrowful person: we . . . despise him; unjustly, perhaps, if any sentiment could be regarded as unjust, to which we are by nature irresistibly determined (TMS 49). Knud Haakonssen nicely describes a passage in Smith on one of our natural tendencies as a piece of teasing, double-edged scepticism (SL 81), and that description captures Smith’s stance toward natural human impulses throughout his work. On the one hand, he sees some of them as foolish or dangerous, as leading us away from virtue and happiness. On the other hand, as something natural, they cannot simply be rejected. An ironic distance may enable us to moderate their force, or to see ways of acting against them, and he gently urges us to achieve such a distance. But he also wants us to recognize that our natural tendencies will not go away, even when we do achieve ironic distance from them, that we are irresistibly determined to be drawn by them. We need to reconcile ourselves to that fact even while trying to avoid the pitfalls to which they lead us. A Socratic irony—or, better, what Kierkegaard would later call humor as opposed to irony²—can encourage this wry acceptance of what we cannot change. Rather than railing against human nature, Smith would have us adopt a humorous, unanxious attitude toward our own failings, a resolution to work against them where possible conjoined with a clear-eyed acceptance of the fact that they will never fully disappear, hence the odd ambiguity in passages like the remarks on love quoted above.
This ironic stance and tone pervade TMS, but show up to a significant extent in WN as well. There are some obviously ironic moments. The laudable motive of a series of mercantile regulations, Smith says, is to extend our own manufactures, not by their own improvement, but by the depression of those of all our neighbours, and by putting an end, as much as possible, to the troublesome competition of such odious and disagreeable rivals (WN 660; see also 555). Sometimes, as in this example, the irony is tinged with anger; at other times, it shades toward simple humor: After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience that a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported (WN 92). There are also moments that partake of the ambiguity between irony and plain description entailed by Smith’s general outlook on the world. To mention three examples that will be important to us later on: First, to what degree should we hear an acid note in the word wisest, given what else Smith has to say about the foolishness of commercial regulations, when he tells us that the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England (WN 465)? Second, given that TMS regards tranquillity as essential to happiness, what is Smith telling us about the restless desire to better our condition when he says that it comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave (WN 341)? And third, is the entire invisible hand account of social phenomena just a literal description of how things work, or is it also an ironic commentary on the corruption and foolishness involved in attempts to control society with a visible hand?
By Smith’s prolixity I mean first the fact that Smith is given to long, complexly structured sentences. Here is a delightful example, which also exhibits the dry wit that Smith shared with Swift. Smith has just announced that small vexations excite no sympathy :
The man who is made uneasy by every little disagreeable incident, who is hurt if either the cook or the butler have failed in the least article of their duty, who feels every defect in the highest ceremonial of politeness, whether it be shewn to himself or to any other person, who takes it amiss that his intimate friend did not bid him good-morrow when they met in the forenoon, and that his brother hummed a tune all the time he himself was telling a story; who is put out of humour by the badness of the weather when in the country, by the badness of the roads when upon a journey, and by the want of company, and dulness of all the public diversions when in town; such a person, I say, though he should have some reason, will seldom meet with much sympathy. (TMS 42)
It is helpful to read this passage aloud. One then realizes just how much Smith is fond not merely of detailed visual images but of elaborate rhythmic patterns, with parallel clauses ( who is . . . , who feels . . . , who takes . . . ) interspersed with an occasional clause that has another clause nested within it, and with longish clauses at first yielding to shorter ones at the end, the whole being drawn together, and relieved of the tension built up by the long wait for the main verb, by the brief summary after the semicolon. Anglophone writing in the eighteenth century prized this kind of complex composition as the height of elegance. Today, clipped, ascetic prose is favored instead, and scholars tend to cut many of the subsidiary clauses and phrases when quoting Smith. I do this myself; I worry about my editors growling if I leave the original quotations intact. But the many clauses in Smith’s sentences are sometimes all needed for his philosophical purposes, and we may do him an injustice when we make these cuts. Take another example:
As ignorant and groundless praise can give no solid joy, no satisfaction that will bear any serious examination, so, on the contrary, it often gives real comfort to reflect, that though no praise should actually be bestowed upon us, our conduct, however, has been such as to deserve it, and has been in every respect suitable to those measures and rules by which praise and approbation are naturally and commonly bestowed. (TMS 115)
The length of this sentence can be explained in part by considerations of elegance. The second clause— no satisfaction that will bear any serious examination —is there mostly to balance no solid joy, or to emphasize it, to allow us to dwell longer upon it, and on the contrary and however are there simply to give the sentence a relaxed tempo. Yet no satisfaction that will bear any serious examination does not merely add a rhythmic element; it also does something to clarify the word solid in solid joy. Even the apparent redundancy in the pairs that conclude the sentence— measures and rules, praise and approbation, naturally and commonly —is not there solely for rhythmic effect. By giving us two words, Smith encourages us to think about the difference between measures and rules and the similarity between what is natural and what is done commonly. Especially in TMS, we must always bear in mind the musical function of Smith’s mode of expression—most of the book is drawn from a lecture course, and Smith needed rhetorical virtuosity to keep his fourteen- to sixteen-year old students alert—but these concerns do not exhaust his reasons for writing as he does. If nothing else, the qualifying phrases in a sentence like the one above teach us to regard moral thought as something highly nuanced, something not easily reduced to simple categories or rules. It is clear, from many passages, that Smith did think of good moral judgment in precisely that way.
In addition, the length and complexity of Smith’s sentences teach patience to the reader, and patience, the self-command by which one withholds quick, passionate judgment, is again a high virtue for Smith. The point of many of Smith’s longer sentences does not come out at all until one has read through every clause carefully and then gone back to bring the whole thing together. Smith tends to help his readers through this process by introducing the more complex sentences with one or two short ones that give the long one’s gist. Here are two examples from WN:
The trade of Holland, it has been pretended by some people, is decaying, and it may perhaps be true that some particular branches of it are so. But . . . there is no general decay. . . . The great property which [the Dutch] possess both in the French and English funds, about forty millions, it is said, in the latter (in which I suspect, however, there is a considerable exaggeration); the great sums which they lend to private people in countries where the rate of interest is higher than in their own, are circumstances which no doubt demonstrate the redundancy of their own stock, or that it has increased beyond what they can employ with tolerable profit in the proper business of their own country: but they do not demonstrate that that business has decreased. (WN 108–9)
Entails are the natural consequences of the law of primogeniture. They were introduced to preserve a certain lineal succession, of which the law of primogeniture first gave the idea, and to hinder any part of the original estate from being carried out of the proposed line either by gift, or devise, or alienation; either by the folly, or by the misfortune of any of its successive owners. (WN 384)
In the first case, Smith incorporates a number of qualifications to his main point within the evidence he is giving for that point. His main point requires him to show that the Dutch have a large share of English funds, but he throws in some parenthetical skepticism about his evidence for the size of that share. He also gestures vaguely and intriguingly toward the end of the sentence at a notion of redundancy of stock and a related notion of a country’s proper business, although neither of these notions is necessary for his overall argument. In the second case, Smith manages to pack both a survey of the legal terms to which entail is related and a theory of the psychological genealogy of entail within the confines of a single sentence. Without its introductory summary— Entails are the natural consequences of the law of primogeniture —the sentence would be practically impossible to follow.
By demanding patience and close attention of his reader in both TMS and WN, Smith teaches us that ethics and political economy are nuanced matters, in which one needs to qualify one’s evidence carefully and be willing to draw fine analytic, legal, and historical distinctions. But his complicated style also reflects another teaching: that in both philosophy and social science we need to enter fully into the arguments, or mental network, of our opponents in order to respond to them properly. The most recently cited passage from TMS implicitly does that, by elaborating the phrase solid joy so as to grant to a hypothetical objector that ignorant and groundless praise can indeed be momentarily satisfying. The first passage above from WN explicitly grants something to an imagined objector—the people who pretend that Dutch trade is decaying—and the second one lays out some of the logic behind an institution that Smith despises. As I have noted, the TMS and first WN passages also incorporate qualifications to Smith’s own position within his statement of that position. The complexity of Smith’s sentences thus reflects a deeper complexity: the feature of his thought that Vivienne Brown has nicely called dialogic, the fact that Smith often presents his views by way of an implicit or explicit dialogue with views he opposes.
This feature of Smith’s writing shapes more than just his sentences. As we move to larger and larger blocks of text—to paragraphs, chapters, and indeed whole works—we find Smith at each level setting forth a position in cursory form, then introducing an objection to it at some length, then responding to that objection, and finally re-instating his original position, sometimes with qualifications that reflect his treatment of the objection. Herein lies, I think, a major source of common misunderstandings of Smith. Instead of seeing the way each piece of Smith’s texts fits into a larger whole, readers get lost in the middle of an objection Smith has been presenting and assume that the objection represents Smith’s own view.
Take, for example, the account of justice in Book II, part ii, chapter 3 of TMS. The chapter begins by acknowledging that the maintenance of justice is essential for society to exist, and elaborating that point vividly: if this principle did not stand up within [most human beings] in [every individual’s] defence, . . . they would, like wild beasts, be at all times ready to fly upon him; and a man would enter an assembly of men as he enters a den of lions (TMS 86). Then comes a paragraph warning us that the fact that systems of justice are useful does not necessarily mean that they came about because people found them useful; we must be beware of imagin[ing] that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God (TMS 87). With that warning in place, Smith says it has been thought that justice comes about because people find it useful, and devotes a paragraph to the utilitarian account of why justice is considered a virtue, which he calls the account commonly given of that virtue (TMS 88).³ In the next two paragraphs (TMS 88–9), he gives two ways in which this account is undoubtedly true : it describes accurately how we think about justice when we need to steel ourselves to punish a criminal who has now cease[d] to be an object of fear and become instead an object of pity, and how we defend justice to the young and licentious when they come up with clever arguments by which to sneer at the rules that seem sacred to us. Finally, after granting so much to the utilitarian account, Smith begins the next paragraph with a But and proceeds to make clear that he rejects the utilitarian view: it is not a regard to the preservation of society, which originally interests us in the punishment of crimes committed against individuals (TMS 89). Yet even here, in the midst of his refutation, he throws in another concession, granting that the execution of soldiers for dereliction of duty is carried out for utilitarian reasons, although he quickly adds evidence to show that our approval of this policy is far from being founded upon the same principles on which we normally think about justice (TMS 90–91). So the chapter as a whole argues that our regard for justice is based primarily on a regard for individuals, taken on their own; that justice in fact serves the good of whole societies, but that our regard for it does not arise out of a concern for this social utility; yet it qualifies that argument with a sympathetic consideration of the opposing view and a series of concessions to the partial truth contained in that view. The result, one would like to think, is that readers come away with a great respect both for Smith’s own thoughtfulness and impartiality and for the thoughtfulness of the moral philosophers with whom he disagrees—come away themselves prepared to sift, thoughtfully and impartially, for nuggets of truth in their opponents’ views even as they affirm their own moral beliefs. The result in fact has often been that readers suppose Smith himself to hold the utilitarian views he so carefully delineates before rejecting.
Similarly, in the very beginning of TMS, Smith lays out an account of sympathetic feelings as arising when we place ourselves imaginatively in the situation of others, but then goes on to address an alternative account by which emotions are passed along infectiously when we observe that emotion in others. In this connection, he grants that there are occasions on which "sympathy may seem to arise merely from the view of a certain emotion in another person" (TMS 11, my emphasis).⁴ Again, he concedes that the sympathy-as-infection theory accounts well for certain cases of sympathy. But the next few paragraphs go on to criticize the infection view, arguing, first, that it does not hold at all for many passions—the behavior of a furious person does not inspire us to join him in his fury—and, second, that even when an emotion does seem to be passed along infectiously, the best explanation of what is going on is that the other person’s expressions of grief or joy suggest to us that they have met with good or bad fortune, and we feel grief or joy because we imagine ourselves meeting with similar fortune. Even in these cases, therefore, we are really projecting ourselves into other people’s situations, rather than merely adopting the emotion they seem to be experiencing. The pericope concludes with a paragraph whose topic sentence is: Sympathy, therefore, does not arise so much from the view of the passion, as from that of the situation which excites it. We could not have a clearer indication that Smith’s consideration of the sympathy-as-infection theory is merely part of his case for his opposing sympathy-as-imaginative-projection theory. Yet readers frequently take Smith himself to hold the sympathy-as-infection view.⁵
The same roundabout, qualified way of making points runs through WN and has often led to the same sorts of mistakes in interpretation. Book II, chapter iii devotes three pages to showing that prodigality and misconduct can take away from the public wealth—concluding with the declaration that every prodigal appears to be a publick enemy —before going on to argue that on the whole a nation can never be much affected either by the prodigality or misconduct of individuals (WN 340–41). But the initial warning against prodigality tends to get quoted without the wider context.⁶ Part V, chapter i has a section on the military which criticizes the effectiveness of militias vis-à-vis standing armies, but a later section of that chapter concedes that militias serve some useful purposes. It also has a section on education that criticizes public universities but recommends that the public should help support educational institutions for the poor, and a section on religion that first defends complete separation of church and state, and then, conceding that establishment is inevitable, shows how some forms of establishment are better than others. Right from WN’s initial publication, Smith’s readers have tended to see one part of these complex views without the other, complaining that he gives no role to militias because they read the initial section on the military and overlooked the later discussion, or focusing on the good things he says about churches while ignoring the fact that his ideal is disestablishment.⁷
Something similar happens with other important passages. Book IV, chapter ii moves from the well-known argument for relying on the invisible hand rather than government intervention to a series of cases that may constitute exceptions to this general rule. One of these possible exceptions arises when an industry is needed for a country’s defense and Smith uses this as an excuse to discuss Britain’s Navigation Laws, which were justified in part on a defense basis. The discussion consists primarily of an attack on the economic value of these laws, but Smith concludes by conceding that as defence is much more important than opulence, the Navigation Acts represent the most acceptable kind of interventionism (WN 465). The paragraph that ends with this line begins with the sentence, The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. To people who thought the Navigation Acts enhanced commerce—and they had been justified for economic reasons as much as military ones—Smith’s defense of those laws will not be at all satisfying. It is as though one said to a spouse who proposes a vacation on the grounds that it will be both delightful and healthy, Well, actually it will make us miserable. But since health is more important than happiness, let’s go anyway. Rhetorically, this response functions as a way of discouraging the pro posal, not supporting it. But from the fame of the little tag about defence being more important than opulence, one would never guess that it occurs within a context in which Smith is concerned mostly to criticize measures taken in the name of defense.⁸
From the fame of the pin factory example in the beginning of WN, one might also never guess that Smith says very little about factories. Smith illustrates the importance of the division of labor with an account of a pin factory, but describes this example—four times! (three times in ¶2 and once in ¶4)—as a trifling one, before going on to explain its point in detail. At the end of the chapter, he turns to what he clearly considers a better paradigm of the division of labor: the many independent trades that are needed to make a laborer’s coat. Why is the initial example there at all? Because it was the standard example for writers before Smith, and because it enables Smith to make his point clearly; Smith concedes that the division is especially obvious in this case (¶2). Here, as in TMS, Smith grants something to a view he rejects before turning to his own view. The effect of his concession, however, has been to lead many readers to suppose that Smith considers factory work to be paradigmatic of an advanced division of labor. His real point is precisely the opposite: that advanced economies are marked by a plethora of small, independent trades that fit into one another without deliberate organization (22–4).
Finally, Smith follows a winding route to his conclusions in his works taken as a whole. Not only does TMS raise and respond to possible objections all along the way, but it concludes with an entire division on the prior history of moral philosophy, in which Smith takes the opportunity to incorporate everything useful he can find in his predecessors, while rejecting those aspects of their systems that are incompatible with his views. WN has a similar section—part IV—devoted to opposing views, although it finds little to like about them. More importantly, the structure of WN as a whole proceeds from a general view about how human beings naturally increase their production of goods (parts I and II) to an explanation of why European history has not followed this natural course (part III), to a diagnosis and refutation of other views about how production works (part IV), and only then, when the opposing views have been thoroughly dismantled, does Smith say that the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord (WN 687). Thus a view is set up, obstacles to that view are surveyed and overcome, and the original view returns as if of its own accord once the obstacles are cleared away. The method here, perhaps not accidentally, recalls that of Aristotle, who also tended to raise common objections to his own proposed view, incorporate some truth from them while on the whole criticizing them, and then take the somewhat altered view that resulted from this passage via objections to be justified primarily because it had survived that passage. For both Smith and Aristotle, argument for one’s own view consists in taking up and responding to objections; the view is defended indirectly, by way of showing that alternatives to it will not work. But it is crucial, if this method is to work, that the reader not confuse the view being defended with its alternatives.
I have spent so long on Smith’s winding route to his conclusions because it has been little discussed. I can be briefer with Smith’s more sophisticated rhetorical techniques, since they are now the subject of a considerable literature.
Smith taught rhetoric and belles-lettres before he taught moral philosophy; he has indeed been called the first professor of English.⁹ Recent scholars have tried to apply several distinctions that Smith draws in those lectures to his own writings, with mixed results. Jerry Muller has usefully brought out ways in which Smith’s presentation of certain policy proposals in WN may be informed by his remark to his rhetoric students that people who urgently want to persuade someone of something need to magnif[y] all the arguments on . . . one side, and diminish or conceal those on the other. For example, when Smith says that unless government takes some pains to prevent it, the laboring poor in every advanced society become as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to become, Muller suggests that Smith is painting a particularly gloomy picture of the poor’s condition in order to inspire political agents to alleviate that condition.¹⁰ On the other hand, Vivienne Brown has persuasively argued that a crucial distinction drawn by Smith between didactic and rhetorical discourse, between the objective narration of facts and the attempt to persuade, does little or nothing to illuminate Smith’s own work (ASD 16–19, 24).
Better results have come from attending, not to Smith’s analysis of literary style, but to the way he himself writes. Brown has provided a brilliant and exhaustive study of the dialogic quality of Smith’s moral writings, of the way in which Smith not only sees moral judgment as reached by a process of dialogue but includes such dialogues himself in TMS, and of the contrasting, monologic style of WN (ASD 23–54). She argues that the sharply different styles represent sharply different notions of the way morality and economics ought to be conducted. As I indicated in the preceding section, I endorse the general mode of analysis here but I see more dialogue in WN than Brown does, albeit, in this case, a dialogue in which Smith treats his opponents with less respect than he did in TMS.
Charles Griswold and David Marshall have drawn attention to Smith’s declared fondness for the theater and suggested that TMS itself ought to be seen as in some measure a theatrical performance.¹¹ Setting the theater, specifically, aside for the moment, it is clear that Smith gives literature a remarkably prominent role in his moral philosophy. TMS frequently brings in examples from poetry and drama to explain or give evidence for its points (e.g., TMS 30, 32–3, 34, 177, 227), and recommends Racine and Voltaire; Richardson, Maurivaux, and Riccoboni as instructors in the nature of love and friendship (TMS 143). There are deep philosophical reasons for this merging of moral philosophy with literature. Since moral judgment is rooted in sympathy, for Smith, and since he understands sympathy as an act of the imagination, rather than of the senses alone, imaginative writing can quite directly enliven or enrich our capacity for moral judgment. Indeed Smith seems to see moral philosophy itself as something of a work of the imagination, a project that needs to draw on imaginative resources and that aims at extending the moral imaginations of its readers. In addition to drawing on literary resources, he fashions his own examples into vivid little stories (e.g., TMS 84, 149–50, 177–8). WN is also filled with memorable little stories, and, as we will see later on, it also aims to expand our moral imaginations in important respects.
Let us return now to Griswold’s and Marshall’s suggestion that we treat Smith’s writings like works of theater, specifically. Smith explicitly says that we should issue moral judgments from the standpoint of an impartial spectator, and he implicitly urges us to be spectators as we go through his study of moral judgments. Marshall says that for Adam Smith, moral philosophy has entered the theater, and notes, rightly, that Smith understands both our relation to others and our relation to ourselves in a thoroughly theatrical way: we are constantly imagining ourselves appearing before the eyes of other people. ¹² Griswold stresses more the theatrical nature of Smith’s books. In the beginning of TMS, the curtain goes up, Griswold says, and the play begins (AVE 44). Griswold notes the strong sense of audience . . . throughout TMS (49, 51), Smith’s presentation of human life as a spectacle to be observed (62, 65, 68– 70), Smith’s suggestion that the proper model for doing ethics is the literary critic, perhaps specifically the theater critic (65), and the fact that one meaning of the Greek word theoria, of which the theory of moral sentiments is an instance, is a viewing, like the viewing by which audiences and critics watch a play (69–70). Citing Marshall, Griswold also finds a theatrical conception of the self within TMS, in that it seems from Smith’s account that we constantly adopt one or another type of mask, and thereby distance ourselves both from ourselves and from other people (AVE 110 and n37). Griswold indicates that his points about theatricality can be extended to WN (67, 70), and he notes that in the History of Astronomy Smith describes all philosophical systems —which here includes systems of natural philosophy or what today we call science —as inventions of the imagination. Smith also, in that essay, and in a brief passage at the beginning of WN, characterizes speculative or philosophical thought as a matter of observ[ing] every thing and then combining together the powers of the most distant and dissimilar objects (WN 21). The philosopher sits in the audience, putting the whole together while others participate in this or that piece of the whole. The philosopher is a spectator of a drama—only this time of the theatrum mundi, the drama of the entire universe, if he is a natural philosopher like Newton, or at least of the entire social universe, if he is a social philosopher like Adam Smith.
Griswold’s interpretation gives us a useful way of looking at WN. WN presents us with the spectacle that is political economy, calling out explicitly Observe at the end of its first chapter, ending that same chapter, and many others, with dramatic flourishes that look like the exit lines of heroic theatrical characters, and surveying the entirety of economic life, and its roots in and effects on society and politics, in a way that no participant will normally do. It is even structured as something of a drama, in which the noble, free system of natural liberty gets introduced to us in Acts I and II, grapples with a variety of obstacles and opponents in Acts III and IV, and triumphs over them gloriously—or shows us what it would look like if it triumphed gloriously—in the fifth and final act. As is proper for tragedy, the climax comes at the end of the fourth act, when all systems, either of preference or of restraint are completely taken away, and our hero is thereby released to establish itself of its own accord (WN 687).
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