Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
… absolutely essential for the individual’s development into a responsible agent who could act appropriately in commercial society. Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Concepts > Character Keywords Benevolence Conduct Imagination Morality Sympathy … 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 sympathy and … not innate, rational faculties. Indeed, Smith goes as far to say that should an individual grow up outside of society, ‘some solitary place, without any communication with his own species’, they would not be able to reflect on …
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