Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
… example, we often ‘blush for the impudence and rudeness of another, though he himself appears to have no sense of the impropriety of his own behaviour’ (Smith, TMS , 16). This may be because we ourselves regard the other’s action as … always mark when they enter into, and when they disapprove of his sentiments; and it is here that he first views the propriety and impropriety of his own passions, the beauty and deformity of his own mind.’ (Smith, TMS , 133-134). So for Smith, humans …
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