Philosophy · Ethics & Moral Philosophy
A topic within Ethics & Moral Philosophy, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Adam Smith
Grounds moral judgement in sympathy, the capacity to imagine how an impartial spectator would feel about one's conduct, rather than in reason or calculated self-interest.
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Locates moral judgement in an inner moral sense that perceives benevolence the way the eye perceives colour, and is credited with the earliest statement of the greatest happiness of the greatest number as the measure of right action.
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