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Adam Smith in Ten Minutes
http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/history/fame/ adamsmith/
Emphasizing the connections between “The Theory of moral Sentiments” and “The Wealth of Nations.”
The Moral Sentiments is a leading example of a particular approach to moral philosophy – one that regards it not as sets of rationally or Divine ordained prescriptions but as the interaction of human feelings, emotions or sentiments in the real settings of human life. In many ways it is a book of social and moral psychology. What we can call economic behaviour is necessarily situated in a moral context. But more than that the key theme of the book is an opposition to the view that all morality or virtue is reducible to self-interest. Indeed his opening sentence declares that everyday human experience proves that false, he writes: “How selfish soever a man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derive nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it”.
Via Mark Thoma (http://economistsview.typepad.com/econo mistsview/2009/11/the-very-best-short-su mmary-of-adam-smiths-life-and-work.html) and Gavin Kennedy (http://adamsmithslostlegacy.com/2009/11 /very-best-short-summary-of-adam-smiths .html).