American Modern: Theory of Moral Sentiments Translated

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I thought a nice bound copy oif this out of print classic work would be nice. As so many people say "How can I give it zero stars? The Kessinger "book" is a bad reprint of a couple of chapters of Smith's entire "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and runs less than their stated 60 pages.

For half the price, you can get a brand new complete printed copy running several hundred pages or get the whole thing on Kindle for 99 cents. Kessinger's description that talks about "our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work" is laughable and insulting. Their market surely must be people who don't know any better. And surely the positive reviewers received a completely different edition from another publisher!

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First of all the book. It will be interesting to compare those two in my system of no less than the Revolution in Learning. As professor of economics I have also read Adam Smith's even more famous book The Wealth of Nations, even if half a century later than I should have. His easily recognizable very personal way of writing and suffocating the reader with, least to say, proliferous zunami of detailed text is at the same time entertaining and really suffocating. But also completely convincing.

They say about some political leaders that they have the Nile or an Amazon of thoughts. He would deserve of being a big political boss.

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As he in reality also is. The best economic policy is conducted on the basis of his still valid thoughts on economics, which in turn are based on his Theory of Moral Sentiments presented in this book. No need, and no competence to go into the mydiad of details here. Secondly, some words about my first experience with Amazon's new improvements of Kindle. During the five years I have been using Kindle, it has changed, improved a lot. Many times I have had the feeling that Amazon has taken into account the suggestions I have made in my feedback. Perhaps, perhaps not needed, because they have been so obvious that anybody could have requested them and Amazon's skilled programmers could have worked on their own.

Two big improvements I see first time in this book. I do not know the proper term, but name it the 'surrounded screen'. And the X-ray property.

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By introducing the ingenious toggling between full screen and surrounded screen has brought to the ebook one of the still missing properties of paper book: Making the reading a cosy event. I would say that I alternate big screen and surrounded about half and half of the time. It is astonishing that the surrounded can really be read without trouble although it is given with remarkably smaller font. The X-ray property is an excellent supplement for constant looking up in Wiki. An improvement to lookups, because there are summaries of several lookups and sorted list of persons, events etc.

But Amazon could easily take a couple of further cock steps forwards. Google maps could be provided in connection to place names. With the fine properties of measuring distance, showing road and giving prepared information in pictures and summaries. But then there is not but a cock step, but a big leap to be made by Amazon to make Kindle another Revolution of Learning.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Not just looking up words in dictionaries but also saving for future needs and memorizing the word definitions just as I have made in MyeBooks. This is a must-read for anyone interested in politics, revolutionary-era America, economics, social responsibility, and how it compares to today's political climate. You hear about the Wealth of Nations at every turn, but this is a very important piece of that puzzle and should be considered just as important if not moreso because Smith addresses the inherent goodness of man that propels him to make compassionate decisions.

It feels completely surreal to read this in today's current atmosphere. That being said the book I received was quite a bit larger than I expected it is not a small paperback , and it sometimes feels like I'm reading a textbook. Adam Smith was NOT an economist. He was a moral philosopher who viewed morality through the lens of commercial activity. This book will not supplant its predecessor, from the Glasgow edition of Smith's collected works, as the definitive edition for Smith scholars. Nor was this its intention. As the publisher explains on the back cover, the "main objective of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy is to expand the range, variety and quality of texts in the history of philosophy which are available in English.



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This latest edition appears to be directed at students, with a goal no more ambitious than to make Smith's moral philosophy accessible to them in an attractive, reliable, yet inexpensive tome. Knud Haakonssen was an obvious choice for the role of editor. The principal points of interest for Smith specialists will be his footnotes and brief introduction.

This is not a variorum edition. It follows the text of the sixth edition, the last to appear in Smith's lifetime. Fortunately, Haakonssen has made important variations available in the footnotes. Although the paragraphs are all numbered, readers of this edition will find it difficult to work with the usual part.

The page headers do not track the part, section, and chapter numbers, meaning one has to leaf through the book to find the specific pages on which the part, [End Page ] section, and chapter numbers are indicated before the paragraph numbers can be of any use. Macfie, the editors of the Glasgow edition, Haakonssen uses footnotes only to provide biographical and bibliographical details for Smith's many historical and literary references.

What commentary he offers is confined to the introduction. Relative to the Glasgow edition, the footnotes are slightly greater in number Haakonssen has perhaps targeted undergraduate readers and added more explanatory notes accordingly and more informative he acknowledges a debt in this regard to the editors of a recent Parisian edition.

The footnotes are easily the best feature of this edition. The introduction makes no attempt to acquaint readers with the basic structure of the book although it does offer a three-page biography. Rather it offers up Smith's theory as a counterweight to certain trends in modern moral philosophy, whose "whole idea" is "to justify a criterion for right action" xxiv. The thrust of the argument is to demonstrate that Smith doesn't believe it possible to establish moral principles by a priori reflection.

Translating Smith's central principle of sympathy as the "practical" or "creative imagination," Haakonssen emphasizes how for Smith moral codes and rules are generated on the fly through ceaseless imagined interpersonal comparisons of sentiments and judgments.