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 analyze and apply virtue ethics in a manner that is consistent and coherent. A … reader who understands Confucius will understand Smith, although Smith's rationale for the practice of virtue ethics is more …

Adam Smith’s version of Virtue Ethics can be traced directly back to Plato (Socrates) and Aristotle. Smith basically … have been looked upon kindly by the Scottish Presbyterian Church, of which Smith was a nominal member. Virtue Ethics, as a … system of ethics, is completely independent of the issue of whether or not there is a personal God or of any religion …

Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) provided a general analysis of virtue ethics (prudence, temperance … the economy as a whole.Smith’s version of virtue ethics is heavily connected to the specific virtue ethics of Aristotle …, which, in turn, was a version of Plato’s virtue ethics that Plato had learned from Socrates. All of the different types of …