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Title: On friendship and necessitudo in Adam Smith
Related: History of the human sciences, Vol. 17, No. 4, p.1-16
DOI: 10.1177/0952695104048070
Publisher: Sage
Date: 2004
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 169900 Other Studies in Human Society 220200 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Author/Creator: Hill, Lisa
Author/Creator: McCarthy, Peter
Description: Adam Smith (1723–90) provided a novel and subtle account of the new social physics that emerged to accommodate the economic changes taking place in his time. This article explores Smith’s views on the effect of commercialization on friendship, and then questions one prominent interpretation of his approach, that of Allan Silver. Against the contested reading, we argue that the new ‘strangership’ described by Smith is not warm, but rather, cool-friendship enhancing. We suggest that Cicero’s treatment of friendship illuminates Smith’s views on this topic.
Description: 16 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 169900 Other Studies in Human Society
Subject Keyword: 220200 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Subject Keyword: friendship
Subject Keyword: impartial spectator
Subject Keyword: Adam Smith
Subject Keyword: strangership
Subject Keyword: sympathy
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Media

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