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Introduction I. Adam Smith's Lectures at Glasgow University Adam Smith was elected to the Chair of Logic at Glasgow University on 9 January 1751, and admitted to the office on 16 January. He does not appear to have started lecturing at the University, however, until the begiruiing of the next...

INTRODUCTION Political Philosophy, Clearly: Essays on Freedom and Fairness, Property and Equalities is part of the series The Collected Works of Anthony de Jasay. Political Philosophy, Clearly is a collection of essays dominated by a unifying theme: the role that conventions and the rules...

FOREWORDHarry Burrows Acton (1908-1974) was a prolific scholar with particularly wide-ranging interests in philosophy and its history. Although his earliest work was on metaphysics, his principal reputation rests on his writings in three fields: moral and political philosophy, the history of modern...