Ryan Patrick Hanley's Books

A companion volume to Ryan Patrick Hanley's comprehensive English translation of Fénelon's moral and political writings, this is the first book-length study in English of Fénelon's political philosophy. Hanley focuses specifically on Fénelon's political thought as a method of understanding his impact on areas ranging from economics to religion and literature and draws connections to its relevance to our political world today.

This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith to recover his understanding of morality in a market age.

Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's founding father, to recover his understanding of the morals of the market age. In so doing it illuminates a crucial albeit overlooked side of Smith's project: his diagnosis of the ethical ills of commercial societies and the remedy he advanced to cure them. Focusing on Smith's analysis of the psychological and social ills endemic to commercial society - anxiety and restlessness, inauthenticity and mediocrity, alienation and individualism - it argues that Smith sought to combat corruption by cultivating the virtues of prudence, magnanimity and beneficence. The result constitutes a new morality for modernity, at once a synthesis of commercial, classical and Christian virtues and a normative response to one of the most pressing political problems of Smith's day and ours.

Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economics.

This book examines the transformation of the traditional understanding of love by four key Enlightenment thinkers - Hume, Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant.

Book's by Ryan Patrick Hanley

The Political Philosophy of Fénelon

The Political Philosophy of Fénelon

Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

The Political Philosophy of Fénelon

The Political Philosophy of Fénelon

Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

Our Great Purpose

Our Great Purpose

Our Great Purpose

Our Great Purpose

Love's Enlightenment

Love's Enlightenment

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