Of self-command

Vernon L. Smith ()
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Chapter Chapter 36 in Adam Smith’s Theory of Society, 2025, pp 405-469 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Perfect knowledge of the rules of beneficence and justiceBeneficenceand justice is insufficient for choosing the perfectly virtuous right actions. We must also have perfect self-commandSelf-command. How are fear and anger expressed in the modern world wherein popular political policies intervene in attempts to redistribute income from the haves to the have nots, as defined for example by, and in contradiction to, the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14–30; KJV)?

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68494-4_36

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