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Gravitation et sympathie l'essai smithien d'application du modèle newtonien à la sphère sociale

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  • Jean Dellemotte

    (PHARE - Pôle d'Histoire de l'Analyse et des Représentations Économiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

This paper aims to underline the importance of the concept of sympathy in the works of Adam Smith. After some important observations relative to the works of the author (I. The double smithian project), we will show, from a precise study of the History of the astronomy (II. The newtonian model in the History of astronomy and the lectures on rhetoric), that Smith's purpose in the Theory of moral sentiment consists to expose the principle of sympathy as the equivalent to the social sphere of what was, according to him, the principle of universal gravitation to the physical world in Newton's model (III. Sympathy as a social gravitation principle).

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  • Jean Dellemotte, 2002. "Gravitation et sympathie l'essai smithien d'application du modèle newtonien à la sphère sociale," Post-Print hal-03472810, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03472810
    DOI: 10.3917/cep.042.0049
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