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... for wider understanding of belief and intent. But I'll probably leave that, as well as The Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith for another non-888 challenge day.
I had to finish it by July 4th, since that's when the Contemplate a Classic Book Group met to ... ... the necessary tension between libertarian ideals and conservative principles reminds me that I should read Adam Smiths’ The Theory of Moral Sentiments which Smith considered to be his most important work, his first, and, then, just before he died, his revised last.
PJ O’Rourke ... Part 2: Novel and Sensibility, Form and Internalization
Adam Smith Theory of Moral Sentiments
Julie Ellison Cato's Tears on the culture of sentimentality
Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey (Btw, Thomas Jefferson was a big sterne fan)
Lynn Festa, Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighte ... ... to participate in a week-long seminar last summer that read and discussed Pride and Prejudice together with Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments. With no known evidence that she had read Smith's work (1759), the juxtaposition of the two texts strongly suggested that Austen had read Smit ... ... and "charity" than he did to the rules he thought should be put into law. Indeed, he believed (following Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments) that sympathy (what we would call empathy) is one of the chief elements of the foundation of ethics.
I'm not sure what all this has to do ... ... Summer Classics session (5 seminars) at SJC Santa Fe. Miss Brann was the senior tutor and we read and discussed Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice. Each book informed and illuminated the other. Amazing. We were very lucky! Miss Brann is celebrating ...
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