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Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator is Neither Divine nor an Ideal Observer

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  • Jack Russell Weinstein
Keywords Adam Smith,impartial spectator,ideal observer,The Theory of Moral Sentiments,moral psychology,imagination,metaphor,beholderism,impartiality,Scottish Enlightenment,history of ideas,Archimedean point,Go
Volume Number 23
Issue Number 1
Pages 173–197
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Publication year 2026

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