Abstract

HURTADO, JIMENA. Adam Smith and the School of Moral Sense Continuity and Disruption in the Moral and Political Community. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2013, vol.62, n.153, pp.45-72. ISSN 0120-0062.

ABSTRACT The system of sympathy introduces a change in the figure of the other with respect to the school of moral sense. The reconstruction of this change reveals an important difference between A. Smith and his Scottish Enlightenment predecessors, which allows for the examination of the role of politics in Smith's work from a new angle. By replacing an abstract, universal figure with a concrete, actual one, the system of sympathy makes it possible to think the continuity between the moral community and the political community, but also its disruption, whenever the latter becomes a space to handle the exclusion that might be generated by the former. The invisibility of some of the members of the moral community requires the creation of a space of tolerance in order to avoid the symbolic violence entailed by the refusal to participate in the affective communication of sympathy.

Keywords : A. Smith; school of moral sense; system of sympathy; politics.

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