luxury produced “agreeable sensations,” the pleasurable experience of refined, sociable living. Adam Smith even grounded his understanding of moral sentiments and the sociability necessary in a commercial society on the notion of an impartial spectator, a
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Beyond Metaphor
Corporeal Sociability and the Language of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Joseph D. Bryan
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Book Review
Cecilia Schultz
Smith's ‘impartial spectator’ in his account of justice and shows how this account falls prey to the same kind of idealism proposed by Rawls, despite claiming otherwise (pp. 110–18). Sen does not take into account the messy politics and the webs of
Amílcar Cabral and Amartya Sen
Freedom, Resistance and Radical Realism
Lawrence Hamilton
a conception of public reason that requires all claims to pass before the reasoned assessment of the public via the notion of an impartial spectator who would assess them from near and far (to avoid parochialism and to include all the necessary
Why History Matters for Democracy
John Keane
linguistic horizons of the present day. Memories are not the gift of impartial spectators; every age and every historian looks upon the past from their own different perspectives and sets of concerns. If that is so, then historians of democracy must admit the
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- 96–110 (15 total)
The Impact of Trust on the Quality of Participation in Development
The Case of Ukraine
Tadashi Hirai
Smithian “impartial spectator” would be useful together as an institutional framework, but neither applies to a situation in which participants cannot afford to view their reality in the abstract. In addition, although the capability approach is seen to be
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 72–92 (21 total)