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Part I. General Introduction -- Chapter 1. Research questions, aims and expected results -- 1.1. A philosophical problem: research questions and aims -- 1.2. Book structure and expected results -- Chapter 2. Methodological remarks -- 2.1. A methodology between reconstruction and interpretation -- 2.1.1. A focus on Adam Smith's style -- 2.2. Adam Smith's articulation of the concept of 'human being' -- 2.3. Thematic contexts of Smith's elaboration of the concept of the human being -- 2.4. A moral glossary on Smith's conception of human beings: merit, virtue and propriety -- Chapter 3. Adam Smith's historical and biographical context -- 3.1. A sketch of Adam Smith's historical framework -- 3.2. Biographical outline of Adam Smith -- Part II. Adam Smith On Nature And Human Nature -- Chapter 4. A semantic overview of 'nature' and 'natural' in Adam Smith's moral philosophy -- 1.1. Nature, human nature and morality -- 1.2. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. A synthesis of Adam Smith's conception of human nature -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Sources and theoretical contexts of Adam Smith's moral conception of human nature -- 2.3. Sociability, the role of language and the human propensity to exchange -- 2.4. Human nature, harmony and society -- 2.5. Human nature and morality: Adam Smith's conception of self-love -- 2.6. Harmony between oneself and the others in Adam Smith's moral philosophy: the desire to better one's condition and the desire to gain deserved approval -- 2.6.1. Some reflections on the role of happiness in Adam Smith's moral philosophy -- 2.7. Conclusion -- Part III. The Origin And Development Of The Self In Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: History And Natural Self Correction -- Chapter 6. Philosophy of history, morality and human beings -- 1.1. Adam Smith's philosophy of history: conjectural history and four-stage theory -- 1.1.1. History and human nature -- 1.2. Historical context and the self: Adam Smith's conception of the savage -- 1.3. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Natural self correction and human beings -- 2.1. Natural self correction and morality: infancy, sympathy and self-development -- 2.2. A focus on the psychological origin of the self -- 2.3. Conclusion -- Part IV. Adam Smith's Model Of The Mind: Sympathy, Imagination, The Impartial Spectator And Immediacy -- Chapter 8. Perfect and imperfect sympathy in Adam Smith's moral philosophy -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Passions in Adam Smith's moral philosophy -- 1.2.1. The immediate dimension of passions -- 1.3. Natural and moral imagination -- 1.4. Perfect and imperfect sympathy -- 1.5. The terminological shades of sympathy -- 1.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Immediacy as philosophical problem in Adam Smith's moral theory -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Imagination, human nature and perception -- 2.2.1. Imagination, harmony and aesthetics -- 2.3. Pleasure and pain in Adam Smith's moral philosophy -- 2.4. Harmony, imagination and the impartial spectator -- 2.5. Prudence, the impartial spectator and immediacy -- 2.6. The origin and expression of moraljudgment: the impartial spectator and immediacy -- 2.7. Conclusion -- Conclusions. |