دانلود کتاب آدام اسمیت و دست نامرئی خدا

One can make a credible argument that philosophers rule the world, centuries after they are dead. The dominant influences on our daily lives often appear to be closely connected to the tidal forces of economic growth or recession. However, this is a somewhat myopic perspective. It can be argued that what really governs and leads us are the myriad influences of those minds who have broken open new ways of thinking, developed new categories of reflec­tion and discourse, and built new highways of knowledge upon which we travel so freely that we imagine that everybody has always walked on them. They govern us often as ghosts, for their thoughts may need to incubate in centuries of human endeavour before they come to maturity and sit easily in our thoughts. Yet such great thinkers, the philosophical and often the reli­gious minds, have formed the real infrastructure of the world, the bricks and mortar of our universe of human discourse, the very words and constructs that are taught to our children who will in turn teach to their children. In this way, perhaps, philosophers rule the world from the grave.