亚当·斯密的天文学史论证:它适用的范围有多广?“安抚想象”的命题从何而来?

Q2 Arts and Humanities

History of Economic Ideas Pub Date : 2007-01-01 DOI:10.1400/86417

W. Samuels

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史密斯的《天文学随笔》认为，我们满足于那些能让人心安理得的命题，尤其是在真理难以企及的时候。我建议……通过断言因果(或其他)逻辑顺序的命题，让人们觉得自己不是无法解释的力量的受害者，这一领域的范围非常广泛;和2。这些命题的来源是社会信仰体系，包括社会的神话体系、作为现实的社会建构的社会控制，以及对权力结构和国家的斗争。

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Adam Smith's History of Astronomy Argument: How Broadly Does It Apply? And Where Do Propositions Which «Sooth the Imagination» Come from?

Smith’s «Essay on Astronomy» argues that we settle for propositions setting minds at rest, especially when truth is unattainable. I suggest that 1. the area of setting minds at rest, through propositions asserting a logical sequence of cause and effect (or otherwise) lets people feel that they are not victims of unexplained forces, is extraordinarily wide-ranging; and 2. the sources of such propositions are found in the system of social belief including the mythic system of society, social control as social construction of reality, and the struggle over the structure of power and over the State.

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期刊介绍： History of Economic Ideas is a new international series of Quaderni di storia dell''economia politica, a journal founded in 1983 to promote collaboration between scholars who share an historical approach to the major issues, the various "revolutions" which have left their mark on economics and the spread of economic ideas beyond the narrow circle of specialists. History of Economic Ideas rejects the dichotomy between "analysis" and "culture": both aspects are of equal importance for a wider understanding of the subject. In a period such as our own, where paradigms which once seemed unshakeable are now being challenged, a multidisciplinary analysis of the historical development of economics might contribute to shedding light on the issues at the root of current debate. Besides essays and critical surveys, the journal includes archive material and reviews of new books on history of economics. History of Economic Ideas is double-blind peer reviewed.