The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith [0]
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Introduction
PART I. - OF THE PROPRIETY OF ACTION.
SECTION I. - OF THE SENSE OF PROPRIETY.
SECTION II. - OF THE DEGREES OF THE DIFFERENT PASSIONS WHICH ARE CONSISTENT ...
SECTION III. - OF THE EFFECTS OF PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY UPON THE JUDGMENT OF ...
PART II. - OF MERIT AND DEMERIT; OR, OF THE OBJECTS OF REWARD AND PUNISHMENT. ...
SECTION I. - OF THE SENSE OF MERIT AND DEMERIT.
SECTION II. - OF JUSTICE AND BENEFICENCE.
SECTION III. - OF THE INFLUENCE OF FORTUNE UPON THE SENTIMENTS OF MANKIND, ...
PART III. - OF THE FOUNDATION OF OUR JUDGMENTS CONCERNING OUR OWN SENTIMENTS ...
CHAPTER I. - Of the Principle of Self-approbation and of Self-disapprobation.
CHAPTER II. - Of the love of Praise, and of that of Praise-worthiness; and of ...
CHAPTER III. - Of the Influence and Authority of Conscience.
CHAPTER IV. - Of the Nature of Self-deceit, and of the Origin and Use of ...
CHAPTER V. - Of the influence and authority of the general Rules of Morality, ...
CHAPTER VI. - In what cases the Sense of Duty ought to be the sole principle of ...
PART IV. - OF THE EFFECT OF UTILITY UPON THE SENTIMENT OF APPROBATION.
CHAPTER I. - Of the beauty which the appearance of Utility bestows upon all the ...
CHAPTER II. - Of the beauty which the appearance of Utility bestows upon the ...
PART V. - OF THE INFLUENCE OF CUSTOM AND FASHION UPON THE SENTIMENTS OF MORAL ...
CHAPTER I. - Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon our notions of Beauty ...
CHAPTER II. - Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon Moral Sentiments.
PART VI. - OF THE CHARACTER OF VIRTUE.
SECTION I. - OF THE CHARACTER OF THE INDIVIDUAL, SO FAR AS IT AFFECTS HIS OWN ...
SECTION II. - OF THE CHARACTER OF THE INDIVIDUAL, SO FAR AS IT CAN AFFECT THE ...
SECTION III. - OF SELF-COMMAND.
PART VII. - OF SYSTEMS OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
SECTION I. - OF THE QUESTIONS WHICH OUGHT TO BE EXAMINED IN A THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS.
SECTION II. - OF THE DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS WHICH HAVE BEEN GIVEN OF THE NATURE OF VIRTUE.
SECTION III. - OF THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS WHICH HAVE BEEN FORMED CONCERNING THE ...
SECTION IV. - OF THE MANNER IN WHICH DIFFERENT AUTHORS HAVE TREATED OF THE ...
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Biographical Notes
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PENGUIN CLASSICS
THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS
ADAM SMITH (1723-1790) was born at Kirkcaldy, on the east coast of Scotland, in 1723, and received his early education at the local burgh school. He subsequently attended Glasgow University (1737- 1740), where he studied under Francis Hutcheson, and Balliol College, Oxford (1740-1746). Two years after his return to Scotland, Smith moved to Edinburgh, where he delivered lectures on rhetoric, which did much to establish his early reputation. In 1751 Smith was appointed Professor of Logic at Glasgow, but was translated to Hutcheson’s old chair of Moral Philosophy in 1752. He held this appointment until 1764, during which tenure he published, in 1759, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. In 1764 Smith resigned his professorship to become tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch, at the invitation of Charles Townshend. This office took him to France, where he traveled extensively, meeting many of the leading thinkers of the day, including Voltaire, Quesnai, Turgot, and Helvetius, and where he began writing The Wealth of Nations. The book was published in 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence was adopted. In 1778 Smith became a resident of Edinburgh, on his appointment as Commissioner of Customs, and remained there until his death in 1790. He was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1787, in succession to his friend Edmund Burke. Smith’s life was relatively uneventful and his disposition absent-minded and retiring. Yet he wrote with vigor and did not lack personal courage, a fact attested by his defense of the character of the alleged atheist David Hume, after the latter’s death.
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