Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
… fuller exploration of Smith’s project in TMS, see Craig Smith, ‘Morality and Sympathy’, 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 … 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 tempered their conduct to socially acceptable levels out … Sentiments’ in Ryan Patrick Hanley (ed.), Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), p. 33-34. In this reading, the workings of sympathy can be seen as operative even in the most often …
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