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Is love ridiculous???
Spyridon Tegos for AdamSmithWorks
It is correctly pointed out that Adam Smith condemns love for being exclusive and rejecting any alternative sociability... However, the situation is more complicated than it may appear at first glance.
It is correctly pointed out that Adam Smith condemns love for being exclusive and rejecting any alternative sociability... However, the situation is more complicated than it may appear at first glance.
Art's Important Moral Work
Graham McAleer for AdamSmithWorks
Adam Smith had a life-long interest in the arts. He was surely a man of taste. However, his biographer, Dugald Stewart, suggests Smith’s interest in the arts and fashion was primarily “on account of their connexion with the general principles of the human mind” (Essays on Philosophical Subjects, 173). Smith, it seems, was ever the theorist.
Adam Smith had a life-long interest in the arts. He was surely a man of taste. However, his biographer, Dugald Stewart, suggests Smith’s interest in the arts and fashion was primarily “on account of their connexion with the general principles of the human mind” (Essays on Philosophical Subjects, 173). Smith, it seems, was ever the theorist.
