An exploration of how people make moral and ethical judgments by a controversial Australian moral philosopher.

ECONOMIST: Non-fiction

Nothing, perhaps, is so dangerous intellectually in the policy sciences as an economist who knows only economics, except, I would add, a moral philosopher who knows no economics at all.

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Adam Smith, a moral philosopher, is a good example.

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In his 1759 book the "Theory of the Moral Sentiments, " philosopher Adam Smith argued that empathy (he called it sympathy) was motivated by the capacity to imagine being another person.

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