The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Smith, Adam; D. D. Raphael; A. L. Macfie (editors)

ISBN 10: 0198281897 / ISBN 13: 9780198281894

Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1976

About this Item

Blue cloth boards, gilt title spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Superficial scuffs & scrapes to jacket panels; jacket in mylar protector.

Seller Inventory # 7104

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198281897
• ISBN 13: 9780198281894
• Binding: Clothbound octavo, 412 pages
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

The 250th-anniversary edition of the influential treatise on social responsibility that has shaped leaders from Bill Gates to Barack Obama Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he investigated the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good. Smith?s classic work advances ideas about conscience, moral judgment, and virtue that have taken on renewed importance in business and politics.

About the Author

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish political economist and moral philosopher.