Adam Smith (1721-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions. Yet his work is name-checked more often than it is read and then typically it is of an uninformed nature; that he is an apologist for capitalism a forceful promoter of self-interest, a...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An intersubjective interpretation of sympathy -- 3 Sympathy, empathy and evidence from developmental psychology -- 4 The impartial spectator, conscience and morality -- 5 The role of...