SOCB42H3 Lecture 3: Week 3 Lecture
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Am i beautiful enough? (how you think people will respond) Me = direct object, the way i am (everyone thinks i am a jerk) Reason = get global view, and will do common stuff (rational) Habitual sympathy mother shapes who you are. What best friends think of me is important, but what a stranger thinks of me is unimportant. Rational/abstract vs. empirical; rational this is on the basis of that (e. g. we could not have self-love if no mutual sympathy) General vs. particular; general meant to apply to everywhere and everyone; particular - empty. Contemplative vs. practical; contemplative getting attention and being important, moving up. Smith wrote this book after he stopped teaching, published in 1776. Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nation: nature: wealth of nations consist of labour (how much workers produce), natural resources, how many people work/don"t work, how much gold you have.
