Social Sympathy and the Fiction of Moral Truth: Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator Theory
The present paper discusses Adam Smith’s theory of the impartial spectator from an epistemological point of view. Inextricably lined to the concept of ‘sympathy’, as theorised in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), the impartial spectator takes centre stage in a world in which the gaze of othe...
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Bucharest University Press
2018-10-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DragosIvana.pdf |