Of the selfish passions

Vernon L. Smith ()
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Vernon L. Smith: Chapman University

Chapter Chapter 11 in Adam Smith’s Theory of Society, 2025, pp 73-78 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Besides those two opposite sets of passions, the social [generosity, humanitySympathyand humanity, kindnessHumanity, compassion, mutual friendship, and esteem] and unsocial [hatred and excessive resentmentSympathywith resentment], there is another which holds a sort of middle place between them; is never either so graceful as is sometimes the one set, nor is ever so odious as is sometimes the other.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68494-4_11

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