#655: Spectators and Sympathy

On Adam Smith’s *Moral Sentiments.*

On The Moral Content of Sentiments

As I wrote earlier this week, Augustine argues that the mere expression of praise on its own does not engender love in the soul. Love engenders love; the words of praise do not.

I had planned to let the matter stand as is, as his point seems relatively uncontroversial. It turns out, though, that there are other ways of s…