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Title The philosophy of Adam Smith : essays commemorating the 250th anniversary of The theory of moral sentiments / edited by Vivienne Brown and Samuel Fleischacker
Published London ; New York : Routledge : IASS, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages)
Series Adam Smith review, 1743-5285 ; v. 5
Adam Smith review ; v. 5.
Contents Part I. Moral phenomenology -- Part II. Sympathy and moral judgment -- Part III. Economics, religion, aesthetics and value theory
Introduction -- Part I. Moral phenomenology -- The virtue of TMS 1759 -- The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the inner life -- The standpoint of morality in Adam Smith and Hegel -- Part II. Sympathy and moral judgment -- Smith and Rousseau in dialogue: Sympathy, pitiƩ, spectatorship and narrative -- Adam Smith's concept of sympathy and its contemporary interpretations -- Smith's ambivalence about honour -- Sentiments and spectators: Adam Smith's theory of moral judgment -- Smith's anti-cosmopolitanism -- Resentment and moral judgment in Smith and Butler -- Part III. Economics, religion, aesthetics and value theory -- Adam Smith's problems: Individuality and the paradox of sympathy -- Scepticism and naturalism in Adam Smith -- Adam Smith's solution to the paradox of tragedy -- Smithian intrinsic value -- Memoir on Adam Smith's life -- Adam Smith's smile: His years at Balliol College, 1740-46, in retrospect
Summary "In this special edition of The Adam Smith Review, leading scholars explore Smith's understanding of sympathy, resentment and moral judgment, his attitude towards aesthetics and theology, as well as the nature of intrinsic value and the merits of cosmopolitanism"--EBL
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 -- Congresses
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790. Theory of moral sentiments -- Congresses
SUBJECT Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 fast
Theory of moral sentiments (Smith, Adam) fast
Subject Ethics -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Ethics
Genre/Form Festschriften
Conference papers and proceedings
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Vivienne.
Fleischacker, Samuel.
ISBN 9780203846186
0203846184