About this title: "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" clearly demonstrates that besides mundane economic pursuits, Smith was just as interested, if not more so, in the capacity of people to bestow and to esteem benevolence, and to strive for virtue even while they are pursuing their own self-interest. The root of our motivation to act benevolently toward others, says Smith, is our natural propensity to sympathize with others. By the same token, our need to have others sympathize with us fuels our desire to be esteemed by others for our benevolence and generally virtuous character. But beyond the need for social ...
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Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Liberty Classics
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780913966136ISBN:0913966134
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very lightly creased front wrapper, rubbing otherwise a near fine copy. Trade paperback (US).546 Pages, Glued Binding, Index Book is based mainly on the second section of his lecture course at Glasgow, Ethics, although the first section, Natural Theology, also had some influences on it. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Date Published: 2006-12-01
ISBN-13:9780486452913ISBN:0486452913
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780865970120ISBN:0865970122
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Date Published: 1984-02-01
ISBN-13:9780865970120ISBN:0865970122
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Description: Near fine condition. Edited by D.D. Raphael and A.L. Macfie. (Glascow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith. ) Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1984. Reproduction of the Oxford University Press edition of 1979. 412pp. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Filiquarian Publishing
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781599865935ISBN:1599865939
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: LIBERTY FUND INC., U.S. Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780865970120ISBN:0865970122
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 422 pages. (422 pages) "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. index (Paperback) read more
"While the current laissez-faire capitalists hold up Adam Smith as their model, the real Adam Smith was first and foremost a teacher of moral philosophy in his native Scotland. Read his ideas on natural and desirable human virtues such as sympathy. Contrast that with the real author of our current form of capitalism, Ayn Rand, who declared compassion a vice. Compare Smith's ideas on moral duties with Rand's derision of "do-gooders," as her followers call those who use their education to help others. Compare Smith's altruistic concern for the human condition and how to better the economic condition of all free people by concentrating on lifting ourselves out of miserable economic conditions and fostering the cooperation and peace needed for capitalism instead of devoting our lives to the constant European religious wars with which Smith was so familiar.
This book will give you the necessary insight into the vision of the future author of the Wealth of Nations and the world he hoped to foster. Contrast that with the highly SOLE and separate self-interest of Ayn Rand and you will begin to see how dangerous philosophies can be when their ideas are usurped by those who do not understand the philosophy or change it into something Smith would not recognize and I believe would find abhorrent, based on the ideas he presented in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Rand was scarred by almost dying in her flight from totalitarian communism and naturally reacted to government as "the enemy."
It is ironic that those who hold government to be their natural enemy think they are following Adam Smith, who was a government bureaucrat and believed government naturally provided some necessary services for the people that smaller fragmented entities could not provide or provide as efficiently! A must read for those interested but perhaps bewildered by their own economic condition and the conflicting moral messages sent by Smith vs. Rand."
"This book isn't terribly informative as a work on philosophy and psychology in general, but it is a somewhat fascinating look into the mind of Adam Smith himself."
"...deepens ones understanding of Smith's ideas and world view. Well-written and thought provoking. One of my initial inspirations to study economics."
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