Virtually the entirety of Smith’s book shows unmistakable signs of Hume’s influence, but he rarely adopted Hume’s views wholesale on the contrary, he modified almost everything he touched. falls in the midst of one of the latter chapters, the one that takes up Smith’s first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments-a book that he always deemed “much superior” to his more famous work, The Wealth of Nations.
A number of the chapters focus principally on Hume’s and Smith’s lives and personal interactions, while others concentrate on their writings and the impact that each had on the other’s outlook. The book is split roughly evenly between biography and philosophy. The two were, remarkably, best friends for most of their adult lives, and The Infidel and the Professor tells the story of that friendship.
He applied the “ Test” to his new book, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought, and reported the following: David Hume and Adam Smith are two of the most important thinkers in the entire Western tradition: Hume is widely regarded as the greatest philosopher ever to write in English, and Smith is almost certainly history’s most famous theorist of commercial society. His books include The Pragmatic Enlightenment. Rasmussen is associate professor of political science at Tufts University.
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