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The recent contribution by Rasmussen claims that Adam Smith was somehow a Humean, with only some questioning points to the theory of Hume. In this chapter, we show that Smith was clearly criticizing Hume. Smith was presenting an alternative theory. Smith claims that perception is not a bundle of sensations but something whole, where depth makes us grasp reality. For Smith, the self is permanent and active existence, although it may have reactive movements. Besides, Hume and Smith found a non-selfish concept of sympathy, but they define it differently. For Hume, the spectator shares the pleasure of those benefited; Smith believed that the propriety of action arises from a direct sympathy with the motives of the person, who must be respectful to some shared reality. Its merit arises from an indirect sympathy with the gratitude of the people affected, something that does not necessarily appeal to giving something in return. Time perception seems to be a differentiating factor between both theories.
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Corr. 296.
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Smith (1976a), TMS I.i.4.4, 61.
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Smith (1980), External Senses 21.
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Smith (1980), External Senses 8.
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Smith (1980), External Senses 75, 164.
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Smith (1980), External Senses 50–52, 150–152.
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Smith (1980), External Senses 59, 155.
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Smith (1980), External Senses 67. See also External Senses 52, 65–67, 151–152, 159–160.
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Marchán (1996, 239–240).
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Tatarkiewicz (1987, 159).
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Mizuta (2000, 14–16).
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Smith (1980), External Senses 3–8, 135–136.
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Smith (1983), LRBL, Languages, 34, 221.
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Hume (1964).
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Smith (1976b, 181–183).
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Schliesser (2009).
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Smith (1976a, 77–78).
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Smith (1987, 270).
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Smith (1976a, 149).
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Smith (1976a, 41–42).
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Smith (1980, 176–207).
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Smith (1980, 187).
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Smith (1976a), TMS VII.ii.1.19–22, 275–278.
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Smith (1976a, 294–300).
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Smith (1976a, 299).
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Smith (1976a), TMS VI.iii.21, 246.
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Smith (1980, 167–168).
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Smith (1976a, 152).
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Waszek (1984).
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For Stoics influences in Smith, see Lázaro (2012).
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Klein (2016).
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Smith (1976a, 213).
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Smith (1976a, 216).
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Smith (1976a, 238).
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As in Smith (1976a, 238–239).
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Griswold (1999, 119).
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Persky (1995).
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Smith (1976a), TMS VI.iii.25, 247.
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Smith (1976a), TMS III.i.3, 111.
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Corr. 49.
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Smith (1976a), TMS III.i.2–5, 109–112; TMS IV.ii.
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See the objections by Stewart and Thomas Reid in Thomas Brown lectures. Reeder (1997, 143–144).
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See Trincado (2006b).
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Smith (1976a), TMS III.4.2–4, 157.
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Related in TMS III.iv.4–6, 157–159. Self -deception in the Impartial Spectator is studied in Gerschlager (2002).
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Smith (1976a), TMS III.
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Smith (1976a), TMS I.i.1.13, 12.
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Griswold (1999, 89).
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Debes (2012).
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For the question of self-love , see Black (2006).
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Imitative Arts I.17, 186.
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Smith (1976a), TMS I.i.1.13, 13.
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Smith (1976a), TMS V.ii.11, 208.
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Smith (1976a), TMS V.2.6, 203.
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Smith (1976a), TMS IV.i.1–6, 179–180.
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Smith (1976a), TMS IV.i.8, 181.
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Smith (1976a), TMS III.iii.32, 151.
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See Griswold (1999, 10–11).
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Corr. 48–57.
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Smith (1976a), TMS III.ii.32, 130.
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The Correspondence of Adam Smith , Letter 40 to Gilbert Elliot, Glasgow, 10 October 1959, p. 49 (ed. Mossner and Ross).
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Smith (1976a), TMS V.ii.1, 200.
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Smith (1976a), TMS V.ii.11, 208.
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Smith (1976a), TMS V.ii.9, 206.
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Smith (1976a), TMS VI.iii.25, 247.
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Smith (1976a), TMS II.i.v.2, 74.
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Smith (1980), Astronomy III. 2, 48.
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Smith (1980), Astronomy III.2, 49.
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Haakonssen (1996, 135–148).
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Trincado (2004).
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TMS VII.ii.1.34, 287.
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Ricoeur (1984, 27).
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Smith (1976a), TMS VI.ii.3.4, 236.
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Smith (1976a), TMS VII.iii.3.13–14, 325. For comparison with utilitarian theory, see TMS VII.ii.3.21, 305–306.
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Astronomy III.3, 51.
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Smith (1976a), TMS VI.iii.49, 260.
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Smith (1976a), TMS VII.iv.26, 336.
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Schliesser (2006).
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Smith (1976b), WN I.x.b, 124.
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Smith (1976b), WN I.x.b, 126.
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Marchán (1996, 50).
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Hobbes (1989, 43).
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Carrasco (2004).
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Tasset (1999, 47).
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Stroud (1977, 167–168).
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Smith (1976a): TMS: 67–68, I: I: IV.
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Smith (1976a, 68–69), I: IV.
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Darwall (1999, 142).
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Rasmussen (2017, 41).
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Hühn (2017).
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Popper (1957).
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Schumpeter (1991).
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Smith (1976a), TMS III.4.5, 158; VII.iii.3, 321–327.
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Smith, TMS: I: 1: V.
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See Holthoon (1993, 45).
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For the importance of love in smith, see Griswold and Uyl (1996).
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Smith (1976a), TMS VII.iii.3.17, 327.
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Raynor (1984).
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Foot 36 of Smith, TMS: VII: II: I: 287, ed. Raphael and Macfie.
- 120.
Smith (1976b), TMS: VII: I: II, par. 34.
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Smith (1976b), TMS: VII: II: I: 504–505.
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Fleischacker (2012, 276).
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Darwall (1998, 264–269).
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Mossner (1980, 66, 70).
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Mill (1971).
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Macpherson (1970).
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Tasset (1999, 243–244).
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Smith (1978), LJ 104.
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Pack and Schliesser (2004).
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Fitzgibbons (1995, 22).
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