Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a tradition of dissent

republicanism, and various forms of Chinese historical sociopolitical organisation” (215), to conclude that “the question therefore is not one of ‘defending’ commercial society from some putative alternative, but of encouraging us to see that our choices relate to what kind of commercial society we want to try to live in” (218). The results presented in Adam Smith Reconsidered offer immediate and relevant progress in Adam Smith scholarship, but, above all, they shall play an important role in repositioning the Scottish philosopher as an indispensable author for those engaged in researching the history of political thought.