winch - 1988 - adam smith and the liberal tradition

Journal Title: Traditions of liberalism :essays on
John Locke, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill
/edited by Knud Haakonssen.
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Month/Year: 1988 Pages:
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Article Author: Winch
Article Title: Adam Smith and the Liberal
Tradition

,!raditions of
Liberalism"
Essays on John Locke,
Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill
edited by
Knud Haakonssen
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THE CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES
1988

Published September 1988 by
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Traditions of liberalism.
ISBN 0 949769 43 6
1. Locke, John, 1632-1704- Contributions in political
science. 2. Smith,
Adam, 1723-1790- Contributions in
political science. 3. Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 -
Contributions in political science. 4. Liberalism. I.
Haakonssen, Knud, 1947- . Il. Centre for Independent
Studies (Australia). (Series : CIS readings; 8).
320.5'12
~The Centre for Independent Studies Limited 1988

Contents
FOREWORD
Michael Jam es ............................................................... vii
INTRODUCTION: LIBERAL TRADITIONS AND THE lllSTORY
OF
IDEAS
Knud Haakonssen ............................................................ :xi
1 JOHN LOCKE: LIBERALISM AND NATURAL LAW
Introduction 3 Natural Law -God's Law 4
The Certainty of
Natural Law 8 The Individual and the Natural Community 13
Law, Obligation and Authority 16 Government as a Trust,
Law as a Means 18 Resistance as a Right 24 Locke's
Illiberal Legacy
27
Shirley Robin Le twin ............................................... 3
2 LOCKE ON FREEDOM: SOME SECOND THOUGHTS
Preliminaries 34 Property and Liberty 36 Liberty and
Republicanism 47 'Privatisation' and Liberalism 50
3
4
5
Alan Ryan ................................................................ 33
COMMENTS ON SlllRLEY ROBIN LETWIN AND ALAN
RYAN
Lauchlan Chipman ................................................... 59
WAS ADAM SMITH A LIBERAL?
Smith's Liberal Framework 65 Tensions in the Framework 68
Natural Liberty
vs. Liberty under Law 76 Winch's Smith 79
William Letwin ....................................... t .. : ..... ~ ...... 65
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ADAM SMITH AND THE LIBERAL TRADn:ION ·
Introduction 83 Adam Smith's Politics in Context 84
Critics and Others
85 Civic Humanism and Liberalism 87
The Legislator, the State and Politics 90 Smith and Public
Choice 94 Liberty and Utility 97 Recovery or
Recruitment
99
Donald Winch ............................................... : ....... : .. S3
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6 JURISPRUDENCE AND POLITICS IN ADAM SMITH
The Jurisprudential Perspective 107 Modem Natural Law
Theory 108 Hutcheson, Hume and Natural Law 109 Hume
and Smith on Rights 111 The Politics of Imperfection 112
Knud Haakonssen ................................................... 107
7 Mil.L'S AND OTHER LIBERALISMS
Introductory Remarks 119 The Complex Structure of Mill's
Utilitarian Liberalism 120 Mill's Predominant Liberalism 126
Our Liberalisms 132 Concluding Observations: After Millian
Liberalism
137
John Gray ............................................................... 119
8 MILL'S DEFENCE OF LIBERTY
The Question of Liberty and Utility in Mill 145 The
Balancing Approach 146 Indirect Utilitarianism: Hare and
Gray 148 Reconstructed Utilitarianism: Dworkin, Wollheim
and Williams 154 Reconstructed Utilitarianism: Rees 161
Pluralistic Utilitarianism: Berger and Hoag 164
C.L. Ten ................................................................ 145
9 LIBERALISM AND ITS DEFENCE: A LESSON FROM
J.S. Mll..L
Liberalism 171 Defences of Liberalism 173 Conclusion 179
Philip Pettit ..................................... : .................... 171
10 THEORISING LIBERALISM AND LIBERALISING
THEORY
What Kind of Thing Is Liberalism? 185 Liberalism Is Not a
Philosophy
187 Questions of Liberty 189 Free
Associations
191 The Liberal Ancestry 193 The Liberal
; Issue 195 Legend and Tradition 197
Kenneth Minogue ................................................. : 185
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