The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith [277]
7 Smith’s reference is to a sixteenth-century work on Latin by Francisco Sanchez (“Sanctius”). More crucially, compare Smith’s discussions above of how we “split and divide almost every event into a great number of metaphysical parts” and how we “divide words into their elements” to his famous discussions of the division of labor in Wealth of Nations 1.1
8 Smith’s discussion of the progress of language in terms of simplicity and complexity parallels certain of his other treatments of the evolution and improvement of intellectual systems; see esp. Astronomy 4.
9 Key discussions of Smith’s views on the simplification and perfection of machines include the conclusion of 4.1 above, Wealth of Nations 1.1.8-9 and Jurisprudence A 6.40-43.
10 Smith here quotes Milton’s translation of Horace’s ode “To Pyrrha” (1.5), 1. 9-12.
11 Smith’s decision to conclude his study of the progress of languages with a defense of the superiority of ancient to modern languages may be attributable in part to his engagement with Rousseau (see 4 and notes above) and his engagement with the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (see 3.2 and notes above).
Index
Addison, Joseph
afterlife
Ajax
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’
Alexander the Great
ambition
amiability
anger: and amiable virtues; and self-command; and sympathy; and temperance; and unsocial passions; variations of
animals
Anne, of England
Antigonus
Antoninus (Marcus Antoninus)
Apollonius of Tyre
approbation: and authority of conscience; and beneficence; and bodily pain; and consequences of actions; and duty; and Epicureanism; and modern philosophical systems; and the nature of virtue; and praiseworthiness; and propriety; and punishment; and reason; and self-love; and sentiments; and social status; sources of; and sympathy; and utility; vs. self-love
Aristides
Aristippus
Aristomenes
Aristotle: and character analysis; and character of virtue; and Epicureanism; and magnanimity; and Platonic system of virtue; and prudence; and rules of justice; and rules of morality; and social customs; and temperance; and vanity
arrogance
Arundel, Thomas Howard, Earl of
Attila
Augustine, Saint
Augustus Caesar
Avaux, Claude de Mesmes, Comte d’
Avidius Cassius
Barbeyrac, Jean
beauty
beneficence: and concern for others; and friendships; and justice; and rules of morality; and self-command; and social order; and social structure
benevolence: and character of virtue, for others; and friendships; and human nature; and public spirit; and Stoicism; and systems of moral sentiments
Birch, Thomas
Biron, Charles de Gontaut, duc de
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas
Borgia, Cesare
Bristol, George Digby, second Earl of
Brutus (1) (Lucius Junius Brutus)
Brutus (2) (Marcus Junius Brutus)
Buccaneers
Buffier, Claude
Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar)
Calas, Jean
Callisthenes
Camillus
capital punishment
cardinal virtues
casuistry
Catherine de Medici
Catiline
Cato the Elder
Cato the Younger
Charles I
Charles II
Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de
Christianity: and benevolence; and compassion; and duty; and the Eclectics; and ethics; and rules of morality
Chrysippus
Cicero: and character analysis; death; and Epicureanism; and honor; and imperfect virtues; and interdependence; and moral worth; and the optimates; and praiseworthiness; and propriety; and public spirit; and rules of justice; and rules of morality; and self-command; and social customs
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, first Earl of
Clarke, Samuel
Claudius
Cleanthes
Cleomenes III
compassion: and bodily passions; and Christianity; described; and individual character; limits of; and rules of morality; and self-command; and social custom; and social passions; and social status; and sympathy
Cowley, Abraham
Crassus (1) (Marcus Licinius Crassus)
Crassus (2) (Lucius Licinius Crassus)
Cudworth, Ralph
Davila, Arrigo Caterino
Decalogue (Ten Commandments)
Demosthenes
Descartes, René
Diderot, Denis
Diogenes Laertius