What Adam Smith thinks about taste

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Scottish moral philosopher and economist (1723 to 1790); held the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow University from 1752 to 1764; author of The Wealth of Nations.

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1. c. 1759–1777

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

   Their wordsSince 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.

   ↗The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759; Dublin printing of 1777)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book