期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：1983
卷号：9
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：R ECENTLY 1 HAVE BEEN READING Adam Smith and some of the scholarship connected with Smith's works. One problem that continually crops up is something that might be called the "problem of self-love." The problem, in its barest form, stems from an argument like the following: (1) Self-love is a socially destructive passion. (2) Smith (or the "capitalist") argues for a society founded on selflove. (3) Therefore, the kind of society advocated by Smith (or the "capitalist") will be [is] fundamentally antisocial.' Scholars on Smith have various ways of dealing with this problem of self-love. Critics emphasize the problem and try to show that a market society is therefore fundamentally immoral, that Smith cannot reconcile the conflict between his Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments, or that the social virtues are lost in favor of such merely commercial (and individualistic) virtues as thrift, prudence, and rational calculation
