The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, renowned social thinker Adam Smith presents an intellectual treatise on the phenomenon-and meaning-of morality. Not just an explication of the external actions and internal conscience that influence our every decision, this is also a study of how ideas such as reward and punishment, luck, and sympathy influence an individual's self-image, behavior, and relationships. At once critical, practical, and sympathetic, this is not only a work for philosophers, but for anyone who has ever wondered what it means to be good. Scottish economist and philosopher ADAM SMITH (1723-1790) helped set standards in the fields of political economics and moral philosophy, playing a key role in the early development of the scholarship of economics. His other writings include Essays on Philosophical Subjects and the influential An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
 

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Of the Propriety of Action
1
Of the amiable and respectable virtues
17
Of the social Passions
34
OF THE EFFECTS OF PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY UPON
39
Of the corruption of our moral sentiments which is occasioned by this disposition
57
Recapitulation of the foregoing chapters
70
Of the utility of this constitution of Nature
85
Of the final cause of this Irregularity of Sentiments
105
OF THE EFFECT OF UTILITY UPON THE SENTIMENT
181
Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon the Sentiments
197
Of the Character of Virtue Consisting of Three Sections
217
Of the order in which Societies are by nature
234
OF SELFCOMMAND
244
Of Systems of Moral Philosophy
275
Of those Systems which make Virtue consist in Prudence
304
Oflicentious Systems
323

Of the Influences and Authority of Conscience
133
Of the Nature of Selfdeceit
156
In what cases the Sense of Duty ought to be the sole of our conduct and in what cases
172
OF THE MANNER IN WHICH DIFFERENT AUTHORS HAVE
340
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