Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
… and likely reaction of their peers toward their own conduct. The spectator, in this way, is the imagined norms and moral codes of society made real by the individual’s moderation of their own actions to heed them. Through the process of … with their fellow-men by way of their imagination, but they also constantly estimate and seek to adhere to the moral codes of the particular society of which they are part. But why, we should ask, did Smith think we are so interested in …
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