The Religious Climate

Gavin Kennedy ()

Chapter 8 in Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy, 2005, pp 39-42 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The great issues in moral philosophy in the 18th century reflected major changes in British society. Christian moral precepts were more concerned with preparation for the afterlife in heaven than with this one on earth, except indirectly: what you did in this life determined what happened to you in the next. Residual grievances about others were comforted by what would happen to them for their earthly sins.

Keywords: Moral Philosophy; Moral Sentiment; Wealth Creation; Relative Amity; Amoral Behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230511194_8

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