At one point, this work quotes Cardinal de Retz as saying that great dangers have their charms, because there is some glory to be got even when we miscarry. In an oft-cited passage, the author writes that a certain "spirit of system" and a "love of art and contrivance" can cause us to value the means more than the end, in a chapter entitled "Of the beauty which the appearance of Utility bestows upon the productions of art." The second part discusses the "merit and demerit" of actions as their "good or ill desert," while earlier the author claims that "imaginary change of situation" is the main characteristic of sympathy. More famously, this w
At one point, this work quotes Cardinal de Retz as saying that great dangers have their charms, because there is some glory to be got even when we miscarry. In an oft-cited passage, the author writes that a certain "spirit of system" and a "love of art and contrivance" can cause us to value the means more than the end, in a chapter entitled "Of the beauty which the appearance of Utility bestows upon the productions of art." The second part discusses the "merit and demerit" of actions as their "good or ill desert," while earlier the author claims that "imaginary change of situation" is the main characteristic of sympathy. More famously, this work claims that the "man within the breast" is the abstract and ideal spectator who must be awakened and put in mind of his duty by the real spectator. Inspired by the author's teacher Frances Hutcheson, FTP, name this ethical treatise, the first major work by Adam Smith.
At one point, this work quotes Cardinal de Retz as saying that great dangers have their charms, because there is some glory to be got even when we miscarry.
The {Theory of Moral Sentiments}