Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Adam Smith's PluralismRationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments

Jack Russell Weinstein

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780300162530

Published to Yale Scholarship Online: January 2014

DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300162530.001.0001

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM YALE SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.yale.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Yale University Press, 2022. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in YSO for personal use.date: 21 May 2022

One System, Many Motivations

One System, Many Motivations

Chapter:
(p.40) 2 One System, Many Motivations
Source:
Adam Smith's Pluralism
Author(s):

Jack Russell Weinstein

Publisher:
Yale University Press
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300162530.003.0003

The Theory of Moral Sentiments complementarily countered Mandeville's moral claims that virtue is the product of political manipulation, but for this, Smith also needed Shaftesbury's and Hutcheson's discourses. This chapter develops the notion that a key ingredient for Smith's rationality comes from Shaftesbury's account of the soliloquy. This, blended with Hutcheson's multiple inborn senses, evolves into Smithian sympathy and his conception of the impartial spectator.

Keywords:   Manderville, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, impartial spectator, rationality

Yale Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.