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Pages 35 – 46 in Darwin, Mars and Freud: Their influence on Moral Theory ( A L Caplan and B Jennings, Eds.

This argument was explicitly given by Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, and has more recently been developed by Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman in his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

" Egoism as a Theory of Human Motives ," in his Broad's Critical Essays in Moral Philosophy, London: George Allen and Unwin.

* MacIntyre, Alasdair, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory ( University of Notre Dame Press, 1984, 2nd edn.

* David Lyons, Moral Aspects of Legal Theory ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 ).

* Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law ( Oxford Political Theory ), Oxford University Press, USA, 2007.

Just prior to this he wrote Theory of Moral Sentiments, explaining how it is humans function and interact through what he calls sympathy, setting up important context for The Wealth of Nations.

* Rosen, Frederick, Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill ( Routledge Studies in Ethics & Moral Theory ), 2003.

* 1759: The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith

* Scott, John Finley, 1971, Internalization of Norms: A Sociological Theory of Moral Commitment, Englewoods Cliffs, N. J .: Prentice – Hall

Their definition of sympathy follows that used by Adam Smith, the title of his first chapter in the " Theory of Moral Sentiments.

* David Gauthier, The Logic of Leviathan: The Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969 ).

* Kurt Baier, " Difficulties in the Emotive-Imperative Theory " in Paul W Taylor ( editor ): The Moral Judgement: Readings in Contemporary Meta-Ethics Englewood Cliffs, N. J .: Prentice-Hall, 1963

* Green, Stuart P. Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime.

This suggests the same sort of rational, self-interested, labor-averse individual that Mill proposes ( although Smith did claim that individuals have sympathy for the well-being of others, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments ).

* Mental and Moral Science: Theory of ethics and ehtical systems

* Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law ( Oxford Political Theory ), Oxford University Press, 2007.

* Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice: Essays on Moral and Political Philosophy.

Adam Smith first used the metaphor of an " invisible hand " in his book The Theory of Moral Sentiments to describe the unintentional effects of economic self-organization from economic self-interest.

For example, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which proposed psychological explanations of individual behavior, including concerns about fairness and justice, and Jeremy Bentham wrote extensively on the psychological underpinnings of utility.

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# Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments ; The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith, one of the earliest classical economists, refers to public opinion in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, but it was Jeremy Bentham, the famous utilitarian Philosopher, who fully developed theories of public opinion.

* Adam Smith – Theory of Moral Sentiments

He first introduced the concept in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, written in 1759.

The first appearance of the invisible hand in Smith occurs in The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) in Part IV, Chapter 1, where he describes a selfish landlord as being led by an invisible hand to distribute his harvest to those who work for him: " The proud and unfeeling landlord views his extensive fields, and without a thought for the wants of his brethren, in imagination consumes himself the whole harvest ... the capacity of his stomach bears no proportion to the immensity of his desires ... the rest he will be obliged to distribute among those, who prepare, in the nicest manner, that little which he himself makes use of, among those who fit up the palace in which this little is to be consumed, among those who provide and keep in order all the different baubles and trinkets which are employed in the economy of greatness ; all of whom thus derive from his luxury and caprice, that share of the necessaries of life, which they would in vain have expected from his humanity or his justice ... The rich ... are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society ..."

Elsewhere in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith has described the desire of men to be respected by the members of the community in which they live, and the desire of men to feel that they are honorable beings.

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In The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) and in The Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ) Adam Smith speaks of an invisible hand, never of the invisible hand.

In The Theory of Moral Sentiments Smith uses the concept to sustain a " trickling down " theory, a concept also used in neoclassical development theory: The gluttony of the rich serves to feed the poor.

So the invisible hand in The Theory of Moral Sentiments is denounced in the Wealth of Nations as unproductive labour.

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# Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments ; The Wealth of Nations

The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a 1759 book by Adam Smith.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments culminated in man as self-interested and self-commanded.

Here ends what Wittgenstein deems to be the relevant points of his metaphysical view and he begins in 2. 1 to use said view to support his Picture Theory of Language.

Twenty-thousand years in the future, Cass, a humanoid physicist from Earth, travels to Mimosa orbital station and begins a series of experiments to test the extremities of the fictitious Sarumpaet rules, a set of fundamental equations in " Quantum Graph Theory ," which holds that physical existence is a manifestation of complex constructions of mathematical graphs.

* Leonard Eugene Dickson begins publication of History of the Theory of Numbers.

The Theory of the Openings begins with an explanation of the general principles of opening play and how openings affect the course of the middlegame and endgame.