The Essays of Adam Smith
This collection gathers the philosophical writings of Adam Smith other than The Wealth of Nations. Its core is The Theory of Moral Sentiments, first published in 1759, in which Smith grounds morality in sympathy, our capacity to imagine ourselves in another's place, and in the judgments of an impartial spectator we learn to carry within us. It is followed by the Essays on Philosophical Subjects, published after his death: a history of astronomy that doubles as a theory of how the mind seeks order, pieces on ancient physics and on ancient logic and metaphysics, reflections on the imitative arts, on music, dancing and poetry, and on the external senses, together with his essay on the first formation of languages. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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