… on their internal motivations, nor judge proper conduct, at all (Smith, TMS , 133-134). Much like how Jean-Jacques Rousseau saw mankind in a rudimentary, infantile condition in the state of nature, but without John Locke’s provision for … moral norms, imagined in the process of sympathy, come to be established in society. But where other philosophers like Rousseau saw society’s norms as corruptive of and oppressive to the individual, Smith believed individuals willingly …