Mediating Terminology and Textual Complexity
Mediating Terminology and Textual Complexity
This chapter focuses on the literary complexity in this book's project and Smith's. The first section looks at the difficulties of using the contemporary language of pluralism to analyze an eighteenth-century text. It looks at the manner in which Smith might be said to postulate pluralism and begin to unravel its relationship with rationality. The second section shows that these types of literary tensions were not uncommon in Smith's times. The chapter aims to show that the debate between Mandeville and Smith was one about the place of rationality in negotiating human motivation.
Keywords: pluralism, rationality, literary tensions, Manderville, human motivation
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