Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315817 
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Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Economic Thought [ISSN:] 2049-3509 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 30-39
Publisher: 
World Economics Association, Bristol
Abstract: 
This paper challenges the commonly held view that Smith's moral theory is a subjectivist theory. Smith's test for goodness and rightness - for propriety - is not the approbation of an impartial spectator, but the warranted approbation of such a spectator. Something is right or good not because an impartial spectator would approve of it, but because such a spectator would be warranted in so approving.
Subjects: 
Adam Smith
impartial spectator
JEL: 
B12
B31
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Article

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