Reason and the Sentiments

Weinstein, Jack Russell

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“…Smith's discussions of education in TMS reveal that Smith usually uses the term "education" to refer to informal development of one's sensibilities and character through interactions with others in one's community as one seeks to satisfy one's natural desire for mutual sympathy of sentiments. All such education, Smith thinks, will affect the kinds of persons 9 we become, and for that reason his argument's implication is that we should select the influences, particularly the peer influences, on oneself and one's children with care (Weinstein 2013).…”

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Adam Smith on Public Provision of Education

Otteson¹

2023

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Most Adam Smith scholars hold that Smith endorsed public provision of education to offset deleterious consequences arising from the division of labor. Smith’s putative endorsement of publicly funded education is taken by some scholars as evidence that Smith tends more toward progressive than classical liberalism, or that this is a departure from, perhaps an inconsistency with, Smith’s otherwise strong presumption against government intervention in markets. This paper argues that these interpretations are flawed because Smith ultimately does not advocate public provision of education. He raises the idea and explores its potential benefits, but he ultimately does not endorse it. Smith also provides reason to be skeptical of public provision of education, which suggests that his final position may have inclined against it.

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Section: Education In the Theory Of Moral Sentimentsmentioning

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“…For accounts of this process, seeOtteson 2002, Hanley 2009, Forman-Barzilai 2011, and Weinstein 2013 …”

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