Ms. Liu is in good company as Mr. Swain dismisses Smith’s “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” as not “very good” not a “great work of philosophy” and “mostly unreadable.” Perhaps Smith did not set out to invent a new school of philosophy, but he provides us with the observations of a wise man. He lamented that “the great and most universal …
Ms. Liu is in good company as Mr. Swain dismisses Smith’s “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” as not “very good” not a “great work of philosophy” and “mostly unreadable.” Perhaps Smith did not set out to invent a new school of philosophy, but he provides us with the observations of a wise man. He lamented that “the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments [is] that wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue.” No words ring truer today or could serve us better in choosing whom to admire or elect.
Ms. Liu is in good company as Mr. Swain dismisses Smith’s “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” as not “very good” not a “great work of philosophy” and “mostly unreadable.” Perhaps Smith did not set out to invent a new school of philosophy, but he provides us with the observations of a wise man. He lamented that “the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments [is] that wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue.” No words ring truer today or could serve us better in choosing whom to admire or elect.
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