Literature
The Liberty and Responsibility of Moral Sentiments: Sympathy, Duty, and Virtue in Adam Smith and Jane Austen
ABSTRACT
This conference explored the moral psychology of Adam Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments and how it could be applied to Jane Austen's Persuasion.
READING LIST
From Liberty Fund
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by
By Adam Smith
Edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith’s first and in his own mind most important work, outlines his view of proper conduct and the institutions and sentiments that make men virtuous. Here he develops his doctrine of the impartial spectator, whose hypothetical disinterested judgment we must use to distinguish right from…
Additional Readings
Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Oxford and New York: Oxford World's Classics, 2004.