Both systems sought to explain and understand observations by means of postulated forces at work in nature, but insensible to human awareness.
to bring order to contemporary experiments where traditional game-theoretic models failed to predict human action even under the conditions of anonymity and to elaborate on lessons that behavioural scientists should draw from Smith’s works.
In Part 1, I outline Smith’s social, evolutionary system of Sentiments and its relevance to both human decision making and the broader rules of human conduct.
Smith’s system rested on axioms about human behavior: we go through a social maturation process, we exhibit self-love, self-command, and an asymmetry between our feelings of joy and sorrow; and three principles of human conduct: human sociality as the driver of our motivation, our tendency toward social mediation, and our love of what is honorable.
These axioms and principles help describes the steps in the social maturation process, through which from birth we learn to “humble the arrogance of our self-love and bring it down to what others will go along with” (Smith, 1759, p 83).
The context (situation, circumstances) in which an action takes place allows people to imagine what alternative action(s) could have been taken, but were not.
In , Smith assumes that everyone knows that everybody is self-interested and non-satiated.
Others always mark their approval or disapproval of our actions in response to the benefits or hurts they feel.
In this conjunction with others, we each gradually come to see ourselves as others see us.
His second book, .[2] I think he was right, in part because his first book was essential in conveying the full implications and importance of his second book as a contribution to human understanding.
But posterity would judge otherwise; was a spectacularly successful book, like few others in history.
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