The Invisible Hand of James Madison

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“…In Foucault's case, he does not want to unmask science as "false consciousness," but rather to describe the ideological functions it serves as a "true discourse." 31 It is scientific "truth," not error or falsehood, that is at issue [59][60][61][62][63][64][65].…”

Humův vliv na Madisonovu politiku náboženské tolerance

“…Jisté podobnosti můžeme nalézt spíše s Adamem Smithem. To však neoslabuje tezi, že východiska jejich teorií byla shodná a jak pro Madisona, tak i pro Smithe bylo Humovo myšlení zásadní inspirací (Fleischacker 2002;Prindle 2004).…”

America’s “Broken Government”

“…Madison and other American Founders were familiar with Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and shared his liberal values. As a consequence, according to David Prindle (2004, p. 223), “Madison believed that, in politics as in commerce, competition among self-interested participants, if correctly structured, could produce republican virtue.” Prindle continues, Madison is a philosopher of regulated conflict, but he is not an advocate of amoral struggle [as some have contended]; 4 he intends the competition his system creates to force self-interested individuals to become partisans of public virtue. As with Smith, it turns out that given the right sort of social order the evident tendency of men to pursue their own interest is a boon, not a problem.…”

“… 4. As Prindle (2004) analyzes it, the argument is between those who privilege Madison’s views concerning the tendency of his political scheme to generate virtuous officials and Madison’s mechanistic/Smithian view that “ambition must be made to counter ambition.” …”