Would the philosopher adam smith be considered liberal or conservative today?

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Answer 1

Comparisons over time don't really hold up, but I think more conservatives would champion Smith's ideas than would liberals today

Answer 2

Smith's work helped to create the modern academic discipline of economics and provided one of the best-known intellectual rationales for free trade, capitalism, and libertarianism. He was a Humanist.

Humanists endorse universal morality based on the commonality of human nature, suggesting that solutions to human social and cultural problems cannot be parochial.

Answer 3

At the time he wrote, Smith was one of the intellecutual giants of what we now call "classical liberalsim.." His ideas, though, are far more profound and far-reaching to fit into a simple categorization.

And that would still be ture today. Smith would look at today's world and do what made him--and the other giants of the Enlightenment--the great minds they were--he would step back and look at the realities--and his opinions and ideas would trancend our simplistic political pigeonholes.

He would, in short, be exactly what he was--a man of REASON--not a follower of ohter peoples preconceived ideas.

Answer 4

Conservative.

Answer 5

Libertarian.