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- Title
ADAM SMITH Y EL RELATIVISMO.
- Authors
CARRASCO, MARíA
- Abstract
In this paper I will argue that Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments is not a relativistic ethics. Although many ethical norms are conventional, there are others, particularly those of justice, which are cross-cultural. Smith's view of justice, summarized in the imperative 'Do not harm our equals', contains two elements: on the one hand the term 'harm', which might be culture-relative; yet, on the other, the term 'equals', whose referent, although not always recognized, does not depend on different 'cultures' notions.
- Publication
Anuario Filosófico, 2009, Vol 42, Issue 1, p179
- ISSN
0066-5215
- Publication type
Academic Journal