Adam Smith

Thinkers1723 to 1790Moral philosopher and economist

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The Scottish philosopher best known for The Wealth of Nations. His earlier Theory of Moral Sentiments grounds morality in sympathy, our capacity to imagine ourselves in another's situation, and in the judgment of an imagined impartial spectator.

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