D. D. Raphael

"Justice, like Janus, has two faces, one conservative, the other reformative.  These two faces are apparent both in the law and in the thought of social and political ethics."

"One source of misunderstanding is that many of the commentators have been economists who have looked at the Moral Sentiments simply in order to find some relevance for The Wealth of Nations. This gave…"

"The sixth edition includes a whole new part, on the character of virtue, and some drastic revision elsewhere. My co-editor of the work, the late Professor A. L. Macfie, was apt to say in consequence t…"

"Smith certainly thought he was reflecting on general human experience, and his evidence was not limited to his own society. He had a fairly wide knowledge of history, including the history of ancient …"