Capitalism and Nature

Smith's Anthropocentrism, previously discussed, is not non-Naturalism. For, his concept of Nature is Newtonian--constituted by atoms interacting mechanistically. Likewise, his individuals are Atomist, the motivational principle of which is mechanistic Behaviorism, i. e. Stimulus-Response. Indeed, the tendency toward Equilibrium in his system, expressed by the Invisible Hand, seems inspired by Newton's third law. But, what is lacking is an adequate definition of the distinction between Human Nature and non-Human Nature, without which, the problem with the abstraction of the former from the latter is not that it is non-Natural, but that it is arbitrary, perhaps reflecting only Smith's ambition to distance Industrialist Economics from Agrarianism.