Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
… Image Unknown author, 'The Muir Portrait', Scottish National Gallery, PG 1472, circa 1800, Creative Commons CC by NC. Abstract Adam Smith is best known as the author of An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , where, to most readers, he is the champion of … one apparent in WN , do we not have a contradiction, inconsistency, or simple change in Smith’s thought? How could the author who emphasised the instrumental role of sympathy and the impartial spectator also be he who appealed to the …
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