From One Sympathy to Another

Bréban, Laurie; Dellemotte, Jean

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“…See Grouchy (2019, 77, 109-10). For more on this distinction and its significance for her moral theory, see Bréban and Dellemotte (2016), Dawson (2004), andForget (2001). 6 It is not immediately clear what Grouchy means by the terms "sanctioned by reason" or "in a manner contrary to reason."…”

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“…As many scholars have pointed out, the contents of Letters on Sympathy do not follow through on this intention in any systematic way. For more on her account of sympathy, seeDawson (1991Dawson ( , 2004,Forget (2001Forget ( , 2003,Tegos (2013),Malherbe (2015),Bréban and Dellemotte (2016). For more on her view of remorse and its place in morals, seeLustila (2023).…”

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Sophie de Grouchy on the Problem of Economic Inequality

Lustila¹

2023

The Southern J of Philosophy

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In this article, I consider Grouchy's critique of economic inequality and her proposed solution to what she perceives as this grave social ill. On her view, economic inequality chips away at the bonds of accountability in society and prevents people from seeing one another as moral equals. As a step toward restoring these bonds between people, Grouchy argues that: first, we should expand property ownership, thereby giving each person a stake in the community; second, we should ensure access to education and redirect its aims, to provide people with the necessary tools to reason about the common good. In so doing, Grouchy claims, we can reawaken the sense of accountability that people have to one another in community.

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Sophie de Grouchy on the Problem of Economic Inequality

Lustila¹

2023

The Southern J of Philosophy

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“…As far as I am aware, the only monograph on Smith that discusses Grouchy in any detail is Schliesser (2017a). For notable article‐length studies comparing various aspects of Grouchy's and Smith's theories, see Bréban and Dellemotte (2017); Dawson (2004); Dawson (2014); Forget (2001); Markwart (2019); Markwart (2022); McCrudden Illert (2023); Pisanelli (2022); Schliesser (2019); Tegos (2013).…”

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“…5 5 The extent to which Grouchy criticises Smith is sometimes downplayed. See, for example, Bréban & Dellemotte (2017, p. 684), who claim that “the aim of the Letters is more to fill in a supposed gap in Smith's moral philosophy than to object to his ideas.” …”

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Egalitarian sympathies? Adam Smith and Sophie de Grouchy on inequality and social order

Douglass

2023

European J of Philosophy

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This article analyses Adam Smith's and Sophie de Grouchy's accounts of sympathy to show how they arrive at strikingly different views on whether inequality is a threat to, or precondition of, social order. Where many scholars have recently sought to recover Smith's egalitarianism, I instead focus on how his account of sympathy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments naturalises socioeconomic inequalities, while also highlighting the wider inegalitarian implications of his analysis. I demonstrate that Grouchy was alert to these implications and reveal how her own account of sympathy challenges the moral psychology underlying Smith's position on inequality. By reconstructing Grouchy's response to Smith, I illustrate how retrieving the insights of long‐overlooked thinkers can reorient the way we understand key debates in the history of philosophy, since Grouchy was far more concerned than Smith with exposing how economic inequality imperils the prospects of relating to one another as equals.

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French Historical Studies

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From One Sympathy to Another

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