Author: Adam SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Theory of Moral Sentiments ... The Eleventh Edition, Etc
Author: Adam SmithThe Theory of Moral Sentiments
Author: Adam Smith (économiste)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Author: Adam SmithPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Author: Adam SmithPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511514422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Broadly speaking, Smith followed the views of his mentor, Francis Hutcheson of the University of Glasgow, who divided moral philosophy into four parts: Ethics and Virtue; Private rights and Natural liberty; Familial rights (called Economics); and State and Individual rights (called Politics). 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. Instead, he hypothesised a dedicated "sixth sense" to explain morality. This idea, to be taken up by David Hume (see Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature), claimed that man is pleased by utility.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Author: Adam SmithPublisher:
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
"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. We by nature pursue our self-interest, according to Smith. This makes independence or self-command an instinctive good and neutral rules as difficult to craft as they are necessary. But society is not held together merely by neutral rules; it is held together by sympathy. Smith argues that we naturally share the emotions and to a certain extent the physical sensations we witness in others. Sharing the sensations of our fellows, we seek to maximize their pleasures and minimize their pains so that we may share in their joys and enjoy their expressions of affection and approval.
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests
Author: Herbert GintisPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262072526
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests presents an innovative synthesis of research in different disciplines to argue that cooperation stems not from the stereotypical selfish agent acting out of disguised self-interest but from the presence of "strong reciprocators" in a social group. Presenting an overview of research in economics, anthropology, evolutionary and human biology, social psychology, and sociology, the book deals with both the theoretical foundations and the policy implications of this explanation for cooperation. Chapter authors in the remaining parts of the book discuss the behavioral ecology of cooperation in humans and nonhuman primates, modeling and testing strong reciprocity in economic scenarios, and reciprocity and social policy. The evidence for strong reciprocity in the book includes experiments using the famous Ultimatum Game (in which two players must agree on how to split a certain amount of money or they both get nothing.)
Essays on Philosophical Subjects
Author: Adam SmithPublisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Moral Psychology of Guilt
Author: Bradford CokeletPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786609665
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Philosophers and psychologists come together to think systematically about the nature and value of guilt, looking at the biological origins and psychological nature of guilt, and then discussing the culturally enriched conceptions of this vital moral emotion.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Theory of Moral Sentiments; to Which Is Added a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages
Author: Adam SmithPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230302959
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1767 edition. Excerpt: ... PART IV. Os the Effect of Utility upon the sentiment of approbation. Consisting of one Section. CHAP. I, Of the beauty which the appearance of Jr Ility bestows upon all the productions of art, and of the extenjhe influence of this species of beauty. THAT utility Is one of the principal sources of beauty has been observed by every body, who has considered with any attention what constitutes the nature of beauty. The conveniency of a house gives pleasure to the spectator as well as its regularity, and he is as much hurt when he observes the contrary defect, as when he fees the correspondent windows of different forms, or the door not placed exactly in the middle of the building. That the fitness of any system or machine to produce the end for which it was intended, bestows a certain propriety and beauty upon the whole, and renders the very S 4 thought thought and contemplation of it agreeable, is so very obvious that nobody has overlooked it. / The cause too, why utility pleases, has of late been assigned by an ingenious and agreeable philosopher, who joins the greatest depth of thought to the greatest elegance of expreflion, and possesses the singular and happy talent of treating the abstrusest subjects not only with the most perfect perspicuity, but with the most lively eloquence. The utility of any object, according to him, pleases the master by perpetually suggesting to him the pleasure or conveniency which it is fitted to promote. Every time he looks at it, he is put in mind of this pleasure; and the object in this manner becomes a source of perpetual satisfaction and enjoyment. The spectator enters by sympathy into the sentiments of the master, and necessarily views the object under the fame agreeable aspect. When we visit the...
