Sympathy (in Adam Smith's moral philosophy) [ Feelings & Emotions / Character ]
… in TMS Smith develops his ideas not only about self-interest, but also about the propensity for humans to sympathise with others (a term, as we shall see, that held a very different meaning to Smith than the one we would ascribe to it … the pursuit of self-interest or vanity, as Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Mandeville would have it, but neither did he agree with his mentor, Francis Hutcheson, that humanity harboured an innate moral sense characterised by benevolence. Instead, … situation . It is not necessary, for example, that we experience the same passion as our companion when sympathising with them. As Smith notes by way of example, we often ‘blush for the impudence and rudeness of another, though he himself …
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