Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
… in Adam Smith (Newark: Polity Press, 2020), p. 40-66. For Smith, it was simply self-evident that the ‘original passions of human nature’ – of which he mentions sentiments like pity and compassion – meant that human sociability often involved mutual happiness and the consideration of others beyond the … own wants and desires (Smith, TMS , 13). But how is it, Smith asks, that humans came to form sentiments like pity and compassion, how is it we relate to the experiences of others? Since, Smith reasoned, we cannot directly experience what our …
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