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Custom and fashion seem to shape moral sentiments much less than they shape taste

Drawn from what Adam Smith said

taste
What this subject means

taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

What Adam Smith actually said

  1. Adam Smith Scottish moral philosopher and economist (1723 to 1790)
    Since our sentiments concerning beauty of every kind are so much influenced by custom and fashion, it cannot be expected, that those, concerning the beauty, of conduct, should be entirely exempted from the dominion of those principles. Their influence here, however, seems to be much less than it is every where else.

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