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Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith's 1759 moral philosophy treatise arguing that human moral judgment is grounded in sympathy — the imaginative capacity to put oneself in another's position — and in the device of the 'impartial spectator': judging one's own conduct as a neutral third party would.

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