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Adam Smith helps with m:roral chalienges, esp ecialiy in work and em*!ymen t. Hie
inspires the i:dividua ro mak . useful a,,nnd satisfying p1ace o himself in sociey by
co;tr butn:_
1 he cria compenm e is A7 ,spthvy. Syripathetic defne' miqht be than t of as
socil Erilaue, -mpioyers are wise to look Fo it Wo-rke rs' wth sypathetic deftne -s
are more productive. Symp-ath Hetic deftnes i w--,n:3
We have seen tiree seats of sympathy: sympa y -/'twiti. tam 3iais, thosew live with
sympat:y' vth: unfal:ias 'i all s frtn c m.rn.on decy ala' civity; nd vympathy
wthe R.a n witliln he bieast, or Xou! sympothy,
In hie t3res I }i1:raismus a ad Martin ],uther and
afte prtng and literacy cracked interpr.tation
wide open ----nrprtaion of scripture, of politics,
of work, of life, of life after death. Conseiousness
got a lot m;ore ornplicatedo
Man evolved for iok in small coliesive bands,
and our genes have not changed that much since
the small band of 1zooo yens ago, And then cane
social hierarchy, But uadirional society worked to
enforce social cohesion and to keep iterp..etnion
closed. Since Luter however, many farces have
tended otrterise, toward disehieshm and 1oral
confusion, busting interpretation open.
Some of our mo'st Mniluential thinkers, such as
jean-Jacques Rousseau, have accentuated disco-
hesron. Others, including Adam Smith, treated it
less tian squarevly. They did. not want to raise alarm
about how modern developments -----in Iteracy,
scien.ee, technology, coinn erce, intl.sprudence,
and polnics-----tight tend to urdo tradtU*Ma frnns
of social cohesion.
But reating it less than sqi arly does not mean
that Smirh did not treat it profoundhy Here I flcgh-
ligh lemennts of Smith as delates to moral chal-
lenges of modern society, especaliy in w ork and
employment, Smith inspires the indrvidual to
inaire a place for him.nself in sociey, a- useful and
satisfying place. y contributing.
Conpct-nee is ho, ut .the crucia coiipecwce
is in The individual needs conpetence in
sympathy to nd a, place to work and contribute
and to find his own life satisfling, As inoral coun-
selor, SmiO helps the worrer and the e3nployer,
By syrnpathf Smith neant fellow feeing or
shared sentiment. Defiriecs in sy athrzing nigh
be thoug r of as social intelligence. Ifs crucial to
the social virtues. Sympathetic deftness is a kind of
co...petence or audiity, Ernployers are wise took
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