The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith [280]
self-interest: and authority of conscience; and beneficence; and duty; and human nature; and Hutcheson; and justice; and perception of virtue; and prudence; and the public good; selfish passions; self-love; and Stoicism; and survival instinct; and vanity
Seneca
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of
Sidney, Algernon
Sidney, Sir Philip
Simson, Robert
Smith, John
sociability
social order: and ambition; and beneficence; and corruption of moral sentiments; and fashion; and natural jurisprudence; and punishment; and selfish passions; and virtue; and wealth
social status. See ranks (social status)
Socrates
Solon
Sophocles
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
statesmanship
Stewart, Matthew
Stoicism; and divine order; and ends of life; and Epicureanism; and fortune; and happiness; and human nature; and licentiousness; maxims of; and misfortune; and moral worth; and natural desire; paradoxes of; and propriety; and self-command; and self-interest, command; and self-interest; and suicide
suffering
suicide: and Aristomenes; and Cato; Hume on; and praiseworthiness; and Stoicism
Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de
Sulpitius
Swift, Jonathan
sympathy: and approbation; and authority of conscience; and beneficence; described; and family structure; and gratitude; limits of; and love; and moral sense; mutual sense of; and physical passions; and propriety of passions; and resentment; and self-command; and selfish passions; and self-love; Smith’s use of; and social customs; and social passions; and social status; and sorrow and joy; and universal benevolence; and unsocial passions; and utility
Tacitus
Tamerlane
taste
temperance. See also self-command: and amiable passions; Aristotle on; and Epicureanism; Mandeville on; and Platonic virtue; and pleasure; and prudence; and social rank; and Stoicism; and utility
Themistocles
Theramenes
Tibullus
Tigranes II
Timolean
torture
Turenne, Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, Vicomte de
unsocial passions
utility
vanity: and esteem; and fashion; Mandeville on; and praiseworthiness; and self-command; and self-interest; and social status
vengeance: and atonement; divine; and justice; and pity; and punishment; and resentment; and self-command
Vertue, George
Vespasian
vices
virtue: amiable virtues; and approbation; Aristotelian system of; and benevolence; cardinal virtues; and corruption of moral sentiments; and customs; and duty; and friendships; imperfect virtues; and individual character; and kinship ties; and licentiousness; Mandeville on; and modern philosophical systems; Platonic system of; and praiseworthiness; and propriety; and prudence; and reason; and relativism; and rules of morality; and self-command; and self-interest; and social order; and social status; Socratic system of; and Stoicism; and systems of moral sentiments; and unsocial passions; and utility
Voltaire
war: civil wars; Grotius on; and justice; laws of; and public spirit; and self-command; and state of nature
wealth
William III, of England
Wollaston, William
Zeno of Citium
a
I am most grateful to Kirsty Walker for helping me with the textual research for this introduction.
b
It has been objected to me that as I found the sentiment of approbation, which is always agreeable, upon sympathy, it is inconsistent with my system to admit any disagreeable sympathy. I answer, that in the sentiment of approbation there are two things to be taken notice of; first, the sympathetic passion of the spectator; and, secondly, the emotion which arises from his observing the perfect coincidence between this sympathetic passion in himself, and the original passion in the person principally concerned. This last emotion, in which the sentiment of approbation properly consists, is always agreeable and delightful. The other may either be agreeable or disagreeable, according to the nature of the original passion, whose features it must always, in some measure, retain.2
c
To ascribe in this manner our natural sense