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Quinn, Kevin - In: Economic thought 8 (2019) 1, pp. 30-39

This paper challenges the commonly held view that Smith's moral theory is a subjectivist theory. Smith's test for goodness and rightness - for propriety - is not the approbation of an impartial spectator, but the warranted approbation of such a spectator. Something is right or good not because...

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Utility, Publicity and Law : Essays on Bentham's Moral and Legal Philosophy

Postema, Gerald J. - 2019

The essays in this volume offer a reassessment of Jeremy Bentham's strikingly original legal philosophy. Early on … power. In his general philosophical work, Bentham sought to articulate a public philosophy to guide and direct all of his … “legislative” efforts.Part I explores the philosophical foundations of his public philosophy: his theory of meaning and framework …

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The Metaphysics of Locke's Labour View

Jaworski, Peter Martin - 2012

This paper is an evaluation of John Locke's labour theory of property. Section I sets out Locke's labour view. Section II addresses several possible objections, including against the conceptual coherence of Locke's argument, against the metaphysical implications of his view, as well as...

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A Dialectical Reading of Adam Smith on Wealth and Happiness

Matson, Erik W. - 2020

In this essay I consider the relationship between wealth and happiness in Adam Smith by a close reading of a famous section of The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS IV.i.8-10). I interpret Smith as presenting an open-ended dialectic between the pursuit of wealth and the pursuit of happiness with...

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An Economist's Philosopher : A Review of Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind, "A Philosopher's Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism"

Matson, Erik W. - 2021

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Virtues, Layers, and Lenses in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Klein, Daniel B. - 2015

These brief, casual remarks were delivered at an event to discuss Russell Roberts’s book How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life. I provide nine quotations from Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments, each quotation stating a source of vice, disorder, and corruption in human life. Smith...

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A Foreword to Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Klein, Daniel B. - 2022

Martin Pánek asked me to write a Foreword to a new edition of a Czech translation of Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments. He gave me permission to post my original English-language text here. The book will be published by the Liberální Institut, edited by Pavel Chalupníček,...

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