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The major impediment standing in the way for economists seeking to understand Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral …
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Adam Smith’s version of Virtue Ethics can be traced directly back to Plato (Socrates) and Aristotle. Smith basically skipped Aquinas and Augustine because they were also Catholic theologians, as well as philosophers. Referencing them would not have been looked upon kindly by the Scottish...
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Keynes carefully and methodically devoted chapter nine of the General Theory to a detailed discussion of Virtue Ethics … which is related to Adam Smith’s discussion in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Both Virtues and Vices were considered by … Theory of Moral Sentiments into the virtue of self command. Adam Smith’s and Keynes’s explicit use of an Aristotelian, Virtue …
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An analysis of Confucius and Smith demonstrates that both are presenting arguments that are extremely close in their conclusions.The Analects present a powerful case against utilitarian ethics in a manner which is very similar to Smith's argument against utilitarianism.Smith and Confucius...
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J. M. Keynes based the ethical foundations of the General Theory on a type of Virtue Ethics that he had learned from G … two major points made by Keynes in the General Theory. First, Utilitarianism, of whatever type, collapses if either the …
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explicit attack on Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations on pages 8-23 in chapter Two of The … on the principle of utility alone and nothing else.Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments is based on sympathy ,but not … antipathy. However, the major foundation for The Theory of Moral Sentiments is the virtue of prudence, since ,without prudence …
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