Review of Jack Russell Weinstein, Adam Smith’s Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and Moral Sentiments

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• 作者：Eric Bredo
• 关键词：Smith ; Moral sentiments ; Conduct ; Reason ; Weinstein
• 刊名：Studies in Philosophy and Education
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：September 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：34
• 期：5
• 页码：525-529
• 全文大小：306 KB
• 作者单位：Eric Bredo (1)
  
  1. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, M5S 1V6, Canada
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Philosophy of Education
  Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
  Education
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-191X

文摘

Aspects of Adam Smith’s thought are introduced to help evaluate Weinstein’s reconsideration. Where Newton sought universal principles to explain planetary movement, Smith sought universal principles to explain human conduct. His theory of moral sentiments considered the role of sympathetic responses to others, and the resulting desire to harmonize responses in differing relationships, as a motive for moral thinking and conduct. His theory of reasoning explored the roles of pleasure, surprise, and wonder in sequential phases of thinking. Weinstein finds the pluralism and emotional sensitivity of Smith’s approach appealing, as do I. However, Weinstein seems too quick to reject logic and replace it with rhetorical narrative, and to view imagination and emotion as “true.-Clearer and more consistent use of key concepts would also be helpful.