Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments

IF 1.3 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

TOPOI-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI:10.1007/s11245-023-09959-6

Elias L. Khalil

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Abstract

Abstract This review identifies at least six different kinds of fellow-feeling in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments. The six kinds are (i) the mirroring of emotions; (ii) altruism; (iii) judgment of pitch of emotions/actions; (iv) judgment of merit of emotions/actions; (v) friendship-and-love; and (vi) aspiration that leads to admiration. Smith does not list them side-by-side. This side-by-side listing promises to help thinkers to see how to assemble them to construct a coherent and systematic framework on how to amalgamate three moments of behavior: the emotional, the rational, and the moral.

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亚当·斯密的道德情操论

摘要本文从亚当·斯密的《道德情操论》中归纳出至少六种不同的同胞情感。这六种类型是:(1)情绪的镜像;(2)利他主义;(iii)判断情绪/动作的音高;(iv)判断情绪/行动的价值;(v)友谊和爱;(六)引起钦佩的渴望。史密斯并没有把它们并排列出。这个并列的清单有望帮助思想家了解如何将它们组合起来，以构建一个连贯和系统的框架，来整合行为的三个时刻:情感、理性和道德。

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