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Here are some conceptual figures on Adam Smith, David Hume, and their ideas.

(The figures are not numbered/ordered in terms of any particular scheme. Generally we have numbered a figure as we added it to this page, and placed it at the end. To some extent, therefore, the number merely betrays the sequence in which figures were added.)

 

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impartial spectator

 

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(EPM stands for Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals)

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Here is a figure that is useful fro discussing Smith's distinction between the amiable and respectable virtues (TMS 23.1).

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Figure 32: Self-judgment spiral, TMS 117.7

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Figure 33: Commanding passions, or Self-command, Part VI, Section III:

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Figure 34: A categorization of passions by "origin" or nature

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Figure 35: Sets of rules/laws. (Blue = sets of nonconflicting rules.)

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Figure 36: Ownership and jural dualism shown by claims against messing

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Figure 37: Click on the image for the famous words from The Shadow. The tenor and sentiment of The Shadow's voice is not Smithian, but the words fit the impartial spectator in the God/Joy sense of the expression.

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Figure 38: Sympathetic gradient/social-distance theory, Part IV, Sect. II, with man within the breast (MwB) authorizing graduated localism.

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Figure 39: Three estimations of oneself. Pride and Vanity

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Figure 40: A list of six aspects of the SPECIALNESS OF COMMUTATIVE JUSTICE, relative to all the other virtues

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Figure 41: 2x2 of (Rows:) whether fortune arrests or gives rise to consequence and (Columns:) whether consequences (intended for the first row; actualized but unintended for the second row) are beneficial or hurtful

(An assignment for students on TMS II.iii.2, that is, the chapter "Of the extent of this Influence of Fortune", pp. 97–104)

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Figure 42: Ladder of Divine Ascent