Download or read book Political Vanity written by Matthew B. Arbo and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Vanity aims to illuminate the central debates over the historical, moral, and political legitimacy of market capitalism as though still profoundly theological in character. This theological sensitivity is achieved by keeping conversation with central theorists of the Scottish Enlightenment, in particular the philosopher and sociologist Adam Ferguson. Ferguson was a contemporary of Hume and Smith, and actively questioned many of the pillars of early capitalism on theological grounds.