Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith author Knud Haakonssen editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:10th Jan '02

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A 2002 edition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, an important text in the history of moral and political thought.

Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments is a text of central importance in the history of moral and political thought. This 2002 volume offers a new edition of the text with helpful notes for the student reader, together with a substantial introduction that sets the work in its philosophical and historical context.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 presents a theory of the imagination which Smith derived from David Hume but which encompasses an idea of sympathy that in some ways is more sophisticated than anything in Hume's philosophy. By means of sympathy and the mental construct of an impartial spectator, Smith formulated highly original theories of conscience, moral judgment and the virtues. The enduring legacy of his work is its reconstruction of the Enlightenment idea of a moral, or social, science encompassing both political economy and the theory of law and government. This 2002 volume offers a new edition of the text with clear and helpful notes for the student reader, together with a substantial introduction that sets the work in its philosophical and historical context.

ISBN: 9780521598477

Dimensions: 228mm x 164mm x 27mm

Weight: 710g

446 pages