A Poem about a Louse

Gavin Kennedy ()

Chapter 10 in Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy, 2005, pp 48-51 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One way to pass through your mind’s window into Smith’s theory of the impartial spectator is to start with a poem by Robert Burns: ‘O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion;’1

Keywords: Moral Sentiment; Safe Knowledge; Impartial Spectator; Fatal Weakness; Blatant Disregard (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230511194_10

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