Format:
1 online resource (354 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780521816250
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9781139148344
Content:
James Otteson's 2002 book provides a comprehensive examination of Smith's moral theory. Considering Smith's notions of natural sympathy, the impartial spectator, human nature, and human conscience the author also addresses the issue of whether Smith thinks that moral judgments enjoy a transcendent sanction
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Recurring "Adam Smith Problem -- The Familiarity Principle, the Market, and Unintended Systems of Order -- Plan of the Work -- 1 Adam Smith's Moral Theory, Part One -- I. Sympathy -- Two Brief Criticisms -- Smith and Hume on the Role of Sympathy in Moral Judgments -- Innate Human Sympathy? -- II. The Impartial Spectator Procedure -- Smith and Hume on Utility -- An Ideal Observer? -- 2 Adam Smith's Moral Theory, Part Two -- I. The Human Conscience -- What Is the Conscience? -- The Development of the Conscience -- Self-Examination and the Authority of Conscience -- Hume, Smith, and Cause and Effect -- II. Smith's Picture of Human Nature -- Sympathy, Self-Partiality, and Sociability -- Summary -- The "Adam Smith Problem": A Prelude -- 3 The Marketplace of Morality -- I. The Development of Moral Standards -- Reason and Sentiment -- The Development of Moral Standards -- II. Assembling the Model -- Hume and Smith on the Unintended Order of Morality -- III. A Summary of the Model -- IV. Questions -- Conscious Planning -- The Emergence of Morals -- 4 The "Adam Smith Problem" -- I. Virtue in TMS -- Self-Interest in TMS -- The Licentious Systems -- Benevolence in TMS -- II. Self-Interest in WN -- III. The Problem and Attempted Resolutions -- 5 The Market Model and the Familiarity Principle -- I. The Market Model -- The Market in WN -- The Market in WN and in TMS -- II. Human Motivation: The Familiarity Principle -- Smith and Hume on Familiarity -- III. Irreconcilable Differences? -- What Can Be Accommodated -- What Trouble Remains -- 6 Justifying Smithian Moral Standards -- I. The Development of Moral Standards -- Natural Elements -- Objectivity and the "Man of System" -- Environmental Elements
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II. A Descriptive or a Normative Theory? -- Descriptive Passages -- Normative Passages -- What Is Fact, What Is Right -- III. The Role of Final Causes in Smith's Argument -- A Response to Critics -- Utility and the Development of Moral Standards-Again -- IV. The Objectivity of Smithian Moral Standards -- 7 The Unintended Order of Human Social Life -- I. The Market in the Essay on Language -- Background -- Basic Elements -- The Invisible Hand of Rule Formation -- Summary -- Problems -- An Implication -- II. The Market in WN -- III. Language, Market, and Morals -- Conclusion -- I. Summary of Smith's Argument -- II. Two Observations -- Markets and Benevolence -- Moral Deviancy -- III. Some Suggestive Recent Evidence -- IV. Adam Smith and "Spontaneous" Order -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Otteson, James R. Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life New York : Cambridge University Press,c2002 ISBN 9780521816250
Language:
English
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