Thursday, November 27, 2014

Invisible Hand, Self-Interest, Hate

In Smith's Economic system, the Invisible Hand functions as a corrective to self-interested motives.  Hence, it is possible that he conceives it as a substitute for Sympathy, which serves the same role in his earlier work.  But, if, so, he now leaves unmodified other expressions of selfishness, e. g. emotions, such as hate.

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