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Smith was appointed professor of logic in 1751 and then professor of moral philosophy in 1752 at the University of Glasgow. He later systematized the ethical teachings he had propounded in his lectures and published them in his first major work, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). In 1763 he resigned from the university to accept the position of tutor to Henry Scott, 3rd duke of Buccleuch, whom he accompanied on an 18-month tour of France and Switzerland. Smith met and associated with many of the leading Continental philosophers of the physiocratic school, which based its political and economic doctrines on the supremacy of natural law, wealth, and order. He was particularly influenced by the French philosophers François Quesnay and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, whose theories Smith later adapted in part to form a basis for his own. From 1766 to 1776, he lived in Kirkcaldy preparing The Wealth of Nations (1776).
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Adam Smith University was listed in the 1995 publication "College Degrees by Mail: 100 Good Schools" by distance education consumer writer Dr. John Bear. Since that time... Bear has turned sharply critical of the school. In a 2002 post to the distance learning discussion board degreeinfo.com, he made light of their one-time claim "that their 29,000 book library was at their South Dakota campus (which was a mail forwarding service)." [6]
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Adam Smith University has not been offering any instruction or degrees in Liberia since December 2007. When construction of our first classroom building on our new campus in Liberia is completed, Adam Smith University of Liberia intends to apply for permission from the Ministry of Education and other regulatory authorities in Liberia to resume instruction and conferral of degrees in Liberia. According to a letter received from the then Director General of the National Commission on Higher Education in Liberia in September 2005, all degrees that had been offered (in Liberia) will be recognized in keeping with the provisions of the Charter and the National Policy on Higher Education.
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Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1723 and was raised by his widowed mother. Smith entered the University of Glasgow at the age of fourteen and then attended Balliol College at Oxford for six years until he graduated at the age of twenty-three. Adam returned to Scotland, and delivered a series of lectures which were very well-received. Smith was appointed first chair of logic in 1751 at the University of Glasgow and later then chair of moral philosophy in 1752. In 1764, Adam Smith left the academy to tutor the young Duke of Buccleuch. They lived and traveled in France and Switzerland for two years.
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At 14, Adam Smith left for Glasgow University on scholarship and later studied at Oxford as well. He came away from Oxford with a contempt for English schools and teachers, and made his career in Glasgow, first as chair of logic and then chair of moral philosophy.
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In Edinburgh (1748) Smith began giving "Lectures on Rhetoric and the Belles Lettres," as Kames's biographer Alexander Tytler reports, focusing on literary criticism and the arts of speaking and writing well. It was during this time that Smith met and befriended Hume, who was to become Smith's closest confidant and greatest philosophical influence. Smith left Edinburgh to become professor of logic at the University of Glasgow in 1751 and then professor of moral philosophy in 1752. The lectures he gave there eventually crystallized into The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
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