Contingency, Liberty, and Patience as a Political Virtue

Smith’s Crucial Insight

This present discussion focuses on the intersection of some issues in moral psychology and some normative issues. It explicates how and why patience can be crucial to the preservation of a liberal

This present discussion focuses on the intersection of some issues in moral psychology and some normative issues. It explicates how and why patience can be crucial to the preservation of a liberal political order. In particular, it grounds the significance of patience as a political virtue in the mutually reinforcing insights and arguments of Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations.

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