… interpretation of Adam Smith’s frequent references to Stoicism commonly present in the
literature and often associated with the editors of the Glasgow edition who hold that in Smith ‘self-…

… On this most important matter Smith is explicitly anti-Stoic. This interpretation is supported
by Smith's observation that ‘though we blame the excessive fondness and anxiety of a parent, …

… authority of Augustine for the legitimation of his anti-Stoic sentiments and does not seek to
anchor … Jean Barbeyrac and, later, Adam Smith each quite deliberately separated Stoic moral …

… anchored in a providentialist view that God had arranged the universe precisely for this to
be so; Bentham’s utilitarianism, by contrast, was thoroughly secular and expressly anti-Stoic. …

… ‘Self- command’ is a central capacity in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy, especially as
presented in the final edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS).Smithian self- command is …

Smith calls them—because they respond to perceived goods or ills. Pity recognizes that an
undeserved ill has befallen another, or simply that another is in pain. Conversely, the …

… That Adam Smith held the virtue of self-command in high regard is well appreciated today;
most recent studies of Smith’s ethics cite his claim that “[s]elf-command is not only itself a …

… The moral is this: If there are more options available than Epicurean/ Augustinian and
Stoicism, then (a) not all anti-Stoic arguments need to be Epicurean and not all anti-Epicurean/…

… Stoicism occupies a more unstable position in Adam Smith’s thought. Smith’s Theory of … by
the long tradition in English literature of Christian, anti-Stoic diatribe. In his lecture on revealed …

… Critics ever since have traced the antiStoic features in eighteenth-century theories of sentiment.…
And when Adam Smith directs us to acquire the perspective of an impartial spectator, he …