The Philosophy of Adam Smith: Essays commemorating the 250th anniversary of The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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Adam Smith’s contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith’s works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings for the modern world. It is aimed at facilitating debate between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the transdisciplinary reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape. The fifth volume of the series is a special issue to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Contributors to this volume include Stephen Darwall, Fonna Forman-Barzilai, Patrick Frierson, Charles L. Griswold Jr, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Alice MacLachlan, Bence Nanay, Angelica Nuzzo, D.D. Raphael, Ian Simpson Ross, Emma Rothschild, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Arby Ted Siraki and Robert Urquhart, who discuss: The phenomenology of moral life Sympathy, moral judgment and the impartial spectator Issues such as aesthetics, value, honour, resentment, praise-worthiness, cosmopolitanism and religion Book Cover Title Copyright Contents Notes on contributors Preface Introduction Part I: Moral phenomenology The virtue of TMS 1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the inner life The standpoint of morality in Adam Smith and Hegel Part II: Sympathy and moral judgment Smith and Rousseau in dialogue: Sympathy, pitié, spectatorship and narrative Adam Smith’s concept of sympathy and its contemporary interpretations Smith’s ambivalence about honour Sentiments and spectators: Adam Smith’s theory of moral judgment Smith’s anti-cosmopolitanism Resentment and moral judgment in Smith and Butler Part III: Economics, religion, aesthetics and value theory Adam Smith’s problems: Individuality and the paradox of sympathy Scepticism and naturalism in Adam Smith Adam Smith’s solution to the paradox of tragedy Smithian intrinsic value Memoir on Adam Smith’s life Adam Smith’s smile: His years at Balliol College, 1740–46, in retrospect Index