{"product_id":"the-theory-of-moral-sentiments","title":"The Theory of Moral Sentiments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1759, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Theory of Moral Sentiments\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Adam Smith’s profound enquiry into the origins of human morality and the nature of our relations with one another. At its heart is the idea of sympathy: our ability to imagine ourselves in another person’s position and to share, however imperfectly, in their feelings. Smith introduces the figure of the impartial spectator, an imagined observer through whose eyes we learn to judge our own conduct, exploring how conscience, virtue and moral judgement emerge from our social nature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMoving between philosophical argument and finely observed examples of everyday life, Smith considers ambition, vanity, justice, benevolence, self-command and the desire for the approval of others. The book reveals a thinker deeply interested in the tensions between self-interest and fellow feeling, and in the social bonds that make moral life possible. Published seventeen years before \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Wealth of Nations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, it offers an essential counterpart to Smith’s economic thought: a richly humane work of the Scottish Enlightenment that places sympathy and moral judgement at the centre of our understanding of society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Adam Smith, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Theory of Moral Sentiments\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Theory of Moral Sentiments\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“One of the most beautiful fabrics of moral theory, that has perhaps ever appeared.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Edmund Burke, The Annual Register (1759)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64193496351050,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/the-theory-of-moral-sentiments","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}