{"id":13152,"date":"2010-07-17T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=13152"},"modified":"2010-07-17T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T04:00:04","slug":"adam-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/17\/adam-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/adamsmith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13153\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/adamsmith.jpg\" alt=\"adamsmith\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/adamsmith.jpg 400w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/adamsmith-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/adamsmith-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Smith\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Smith<\/a> died on this date in 1790 (b. 1723).<\/p>\n<p>Frye in &#8220;Varieties of Eighteenth Century Sensibility&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We saw that Locke, like Descartes before him, based his philosophy on a philosophical man abstracted from his social context, in short, a theoretical primitive.\u00a0 Also that Robinson Crusoe was an allegory of another abstract primitive, the economic man of capitalist theory, whose outlines are already fairly complete in Adam Smith.\u00a0 These are the individual primitives at the core of Augustan culture.\u00a0 But such primitives have voluntarily entered a social contract and a historical tradition.\u00a0 For this attitude nothing in the area of culture can develop except on the other side of the social contract: literature and the other arts are rooted in a historical context in both time and space.\u00a0 (<em>CW <\/em>17, 33)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Smith died on this date in 1790 (b. 1723). Frye in &#8220;Varieties of Eighteenth Century Sensibility&#8221;: We saw that Locke, like Descartes before him, based his philosophy on a philosophical man abstracted from his social context, in short, a theoretical primitive.\u00a0 Also that Robinson Crusoe was an allegory of another abstract primitive, the economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adam Smith - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/17\/adam-smith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adam Smith - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adam Smith died on this date in 1790 (b. 1723). 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