Abstract

Sergio Cremaschi

Adam Smith’s Post-Skepticism and His Unwritten Doctrines

I claim that, far from being a sceptic, Adam Smith was the proponent of an improved version of Hume’s post-scepticism, namely a quasi-Kantian philosophy without the a-priori;  that, far from being un-systematic, he worked out in its general outline a grand System, which he only sporadically published;  that, far from being an atheist he had clear in mind a ‘hidden theology’;  and that, far from being either an economist-cum-moral philosopher, he had two works in progress, meant to provide the missing parts of his oeuvre.