Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men, by their concord or dissonance with our own

Vernon L. Smith ()
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Chapter Chapter 4 in Adam Smith’s Theory of Society, 2025, pp 23-25 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The sentiment or affection of the heart, from which any action proceeds, and upon which its whole virtueVirtueand reward or vice must ultimately depend, may be considered under two different…relations; first, in relation to the cause which excites it, or the motive which gives occasion to it; and, secondly, in relation to the end which it proposes, or the effect which it tends to produce.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68494-4_4

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