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SMITH AT 300: READING AND REREADING “THE CORRUPTION OF MORAL SENTIMENTS”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2023

Glory M. Liu*
Affiliation:
Glory M. Liu: Harvard University. Email: gloryliu@fas.harvard.edu

Extract

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”

TMS I.iii.3.1

Type
Symposium: Smith at 300
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the History of Economics Society

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