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	The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Theory of Moral Sentiments written by Adam Smith in 1759, was one of the most important works in the theory of capitalism.
		Hutcheson had abandoned the psychological view of moral philosophy, claiming that motives were too fickle to be used as a basis for a philosophical system.
		The Theory of Moral Sentiments at the Library of Economics and Liberty.
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	ADAM SMITH: MORAL SENTIMENTS
		In the Theory of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith gives a commonsensical and accessible analysis of various feelings and psychological dispositions relating to morality, an account which readers are invited to test against their own experience of these feelings.
		And our reaction to the particular case does not require a special moral faculty: our reaction is an ordinary emotional one - anger, love, etc - and the moral judgement of approval or disapproval is simply the perception of an agreement or disagreement between this reaction and the imagined reaction of an impartial spectator.
		He does not deny that the moral qualities are useful, but he maintains that it is not the perception of their usefulness that makes us approve them.
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	The Theory of Moral Sentiments (The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) lays the foundation for a general system of morals, and is a text of central importance in the history of moral and political thought.
		It was written about the same time as David Hume's and Francis Hutchinson's theories of moral sentiments (theory of benevolence) in the 18th century, departing from the ancient ethical paradigms of a priori ethics and reaching instead toward an empirical, a posteriori ethics for modernity.
		Morality is thus learned through experience of feeling (sentiments) that connect us to others (thus the title: theory of moral sentiments).
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		He develops a powerful doctrine of "moral duty" based upon "the rules of justice", "the rules of chastity", and "the rules of veracity" that decries cowardice, treachery, and falsity.
		The would-be-Capitalist or pretended-Capitalist who violates any of the rules of moral duty in the accumulation of wealth and power in or out of the marketplace is a misanthrope who may dangerously abuse the wealth and position he acquires.
		Without "Moral Sentiments" one is left with an empty, even soulless, economic theory that can be construed as greedy and grasping no matter how much wealth may be acquired.
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	Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (1981-87) Vol. I Theory of Moral Sentiments (© ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His predecessor as Professor of Moral Philosophy, Thomas Craigie, was already ill in 1751, and Smith was asked to substitute for him with lectures on natural jurisprudence and politics1 in addition to taking the Logic class.
		His Theory of Moral Sentiment founded on sympathy, a very ingenious attempt to account for the principal phenomena in the moral world from this one general principle, like that of gravity in the natural world, did not please Hutcheson’s scholars so well as that to which they had been accustomed.
		Moral action is motivated by the disinterested feeling of benevolence, and moral judgement expresses the disinterested feeling of approval or disapproval that Hutcheson called ‘the moral sense’.
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	Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
		Let these generous sentiments be supposed ever so weak; let them be insufficient to move even a hand or finger of our body; they must still direct the determinations of our mind, and where every thing else is equal, produce a cool preference of what is useful and serviceable to mankind...
		Moral sense theories are a kind of intuitionism--through our reason we "see" that an act is wrong (or, according to the moral sense theories, through our organ of moral sensation we feel that it is wrong), by direct intuition (viewing--in Latin intueri means "to see").
		Smith's account of moral approbation is that it expresses a perception of correspondence between the feelings motivating the act and the feelings toward that act that would be felt by a well-informed and impartial spectator who imagined himself in the situation of the person acting.
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	David Hume -- Moral Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Hume's moral theory is of lasting importance in the history of moral philosophy both for its originality and for its influence on later moral theories.
		The moral agent is the person who performs an action, such as stealing a car; the receiver is the person affected by the conduct, such as the owner of the stolen car; and the moral spectator is the person who observes and, in this case, disapproves of the agent's action.
		In every moral action that can be estimated by us, these two sets of feelings may be taken into account; the feelings of the agent when he meditated and willed the action; and the feelings of the spectator, or of him who calmly contemplates the action at any distance of space or time.
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	Adam Smith - The Theory of the Moral Sentiments - The Adam Smith Institute
		Adam Smith - The Theory of the Moral Sentiments - The Adam Smith Institute
		III - Of the corruption of our moral sentiments, which is occasioned by this disposition to admire the rich and the great, and to despise or neglect persons of poor and mean condition
		V - Of the influence and authority of the general Rules of Morality, and that they are justly regarded as the Laws of the Deity
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		The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith 1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
		When the sentiments of our companion coincide with our own in things of this kind, which are obvious and easy, and in which, perhaps, we never found a single person who differed from us, though we, no doubt, must approve of them, yet he seems to deserve no praise or admiration on account of them.
		The sentiments of the spectators are, in this last case, less wide of those of the sufferer, and their imperfect fellow-feeling lends him some assistance in supporting his misery.
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	ISBN 0895263637, The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Behind the greatest economist of all there was the philosopher and man of culture and this phenomenal book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, shows the philosopher in his prime, portraying as the subject of his inquiries man as is, be it in the pre-vitorian time Smith lived, be it today or in ancient Greece.
		This perspective plays a large role in his work, for according to Smith the moral perspective, and indeed conscience itself, is largely a function of adopting the point of view of the "person principally concerned" in morally relevant situations, and subsequently sympathizing with the perspective of the various parties involved.
		He was a professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University, and is reputed to have declared himself most proud, not of his most (and justly) famous, The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, but of this book instead.
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		When these general rules, indeed, have been formed, when they are universally acknowledged and established, by the concurring sentiments of mankind, we frequently appeal to them as to the standards of judgment, in debating concerning the degree of praise or blame that is due to certain actions of a complicated and dubious nature.
		The regard to those general rules of conduct, is what is properly called a sense of duty, a principle of the greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing their actions.
		It belongs to our moral faculties, in the same manner to determine when the ear ought to be soothed, when the eye ought to be indulged, when the taste ought to be gratified, when and how far every other principle of our nature ought either to be indulged or restrained.
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	Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments, VII.iii.3
		This sentiment being of a peculiar nature distinct from every other, and the effect of a particular power of perception, they give it a particular name, and call it a moral sense.
		We admire the delicate precision of his moral sentiments: they lead our own judgments, and, upon account of their uncommon and surprising justness, they even excite our wonder and applause.
		Thus the approbation with which we view a tender, delicate, and humane sentiment, is quite different from that with which we are struck by one that appears great, daring, and magnanimous.
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	THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS
		This was Adam Smith's first book, written while he was a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
		It is in this book that Smith first introduced the concept of an "invisible hand," this time to show why the outwardly selfish rich are moved to help the poor and increase the welfare of society as a whole.
		Smith shows why free markets, with all of their unequal outcomes and income disparities, still do a better job of providing assistance to the truly needy than do government-mandated income redistribution schemes.
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		Moral Philo., Univ. Glasgow, 1751-2, 1752-63; Tutor to Duke of Buccleuch, 1764-6; Adviser to Charles Townshend, 1766-7; Commissioner of Customs for Scotland, 1778-90.
		Though he wrote and lectured on a wide range of subjects, Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations were his only full-length treatises, whose underlying philosophy and methodology seems to have been established early in his life, and both, though superficially inconsistent, reflect a single view of the world.
		In Moral Sentiments he explored the ethical conduct of men under the influence of social pressures; the Wealth of Nations was concerned with economic processes resulting from the operation of self-interest, and was used to illustrate the nature of economic relations in a market society, including the economic policies appropriate to such an order.
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	The Theory of Moral Sentiments
		III Of the corruption of our moral sentiments, which is occasioned by this disposition to admire the rich and the great, and to despise or neglect persons of poor and mean condition
		I answer, that in the sentiment of approbation there are two things to be taken notice of; first, the sympathetic passion of the spectator; and, secondly, the emotion which arises from his observing the perfect coincidence between this sympathetic passion in himself, and the original passion in the person principally concerned.
		The sentiment of complete sympathy and approbation, mixed and animated with wonder and surprise, constitutes what is properly called admiration, as has already been more than once taken notice of.
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		Therefore, it is a wholly modern theory, and in many ways anticipates Darwinism and evolutionary biology (EB).
		Both theories are thoroughly modern, and readers familiar with EB will find that Smith better anticipates many of EB's themes, i.e., reciprocal altruism, kin selection, etc. Smith's perception of man as he will become described by Darwin is uncanny.
		Regrettably, the ethical theory of moral sentiments gets little attention in ethics courses, despite the ease of reading and relevance to today's modern synthesis.
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	Adam Smith - The Theory of the Moral Sentiments - The Adam Smith Institute
		It was not the famous Wealth of Nations, but a work on ethics and human nature called The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which made Adam Smith's career.
		The Theory of Moral Sentiments establishes a new liberalism, in which social organization is seen as the outcome of human action but not necessarily of human design.
		Index to "The Theory of the Moral Sentiments"
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	Adam Smith: Reading Guide for Theory of Moral Sentiments, 65-100 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Smith was a moral philosopher, and we start with excerpts from Theory of Moral Sentiments because he considered it his most important work.
		Out of sympathy we are moving to sociality, because of the importance of approving of each other's feelings.
		Because moral judgments are made by seeing things and reflecting on them, they are essentially similar to aesthetic judgments.
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	Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments, V.1
		There are other principles besides those already enumerated, which have a considerable influence upon the moral sentiments of mankind, and are the chief causes of the many irregular and discordant opinions which prevail in different ages and nations concerning what is blameable or praise-worthy.
		And there seems to be an absurdity of the same kind in ornamenting a house after a quite different manner from that which custom and fashion have prescribed; though the new ornaments should in themselves be somewhat superior to the common ones.
		According to the ancient rhetoricians, a certain measure of verse was by nature appropriated to each particular species of writing, as being naturally expressive of that character, sentiment, or passion, which ought to predominate in it.
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		it is chiefly from this regard to the sentiments of mankind, that we pursue riches and avoid poverty.
		Of the corruption of our moral sentiments, which is occasioned by this disposition to admire the rich and the great, and to despise or neglect persons of poor and mean condition
		That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is often most unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.
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	Smith: Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part I. Of the Propriety of Action: Library of Economics and Liberty
		But whatever may be the cause of sympathy, or however it may be excited, nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellow-feeling with all the emotions of our own breast; nor are we ever so much shocked as by the appearance of the contrary.
		Upon these two different efforts, upon that of the spectator to enter into the sentiments of the person principally concerned, and upon that of the person principally concerned, to bring down his emotions to what the spectator can go along with, are founded two different sets of virtues.
		In a great assembly he is the person upon whom all direct their eyes; it is upon him that their passions seem all to wait with expectation, in order to receive that movement and d
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	Smith, The Glasgow Edition of the Works vol. 1 (The Theory of Moral Sentiments) ToC: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He wrote in a wide range of disciplines: moral philosophy, jurisprudence, rhetoric and literature, and the history of science.
		The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith’s first and in his own mind most important work, outlines his view of proper conduct and the institutions and sentiments that make men virtuous.
		Here he develops his doctrine of the impartial spectator, whose hypothetical disinterested judgment we must use to distinguish right from wrong in any given situation.
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	Smith, Adam, 1723-1790. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Section 2.3 Section III Of the Influence of Fortune upon the Sentiments of Mankind, with regard to the Merit or Demerit of Actions
		Part 5 Part V Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon the Sentiments of Moral Approbation and Disapprobation Consisting of One Section
		Section 7.1 Section I Of the Questions which ought to be examined in a Theory of Moral Sentiments
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		Book Description: Adam Smith's major work of 1759 develops the foundation for a general system of morals, and is a text of central importance in the history of moral and political thought.
		Through the idea of sympathy and the mental construct of an impartial spectator, Smith formulated highly original theories of conscience, moral judgment and the virtues.
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