Before revision: Precursors Mead's concept of the generalised other has been linked to Adam Smith's notion of the impartial spectatorLars Udehn, Methodological Individualism (2001) p. 367n – itself rooted in the earlier thinking of Addison and Epictectus.Nicholas Phillipson, Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life (2011) p. 107 Adam Smith wrote: "We Conceive ourselves as acting in the presence of a person quite candid and equitable, of one who...is meerly a man in general, an impartial Spectator who considers our conduct with the same indifference with which we regard that of other people".Quoted in Phillipson, p. 164-5 pp.
After revision: Precursors Mead's concept of the generalised other has been linked to Adam Smith's notion of the impartial spectatorLars Udehn, Methodological Individualism (2001) p. 367n – itself rooted in the earlier thinking of Addison and Epictectus.Nicholas Phillipson, Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life (2011) p. 107 Adam Smith wrote: "We Conceive ourselves as acting in the presence of a person quite candid and equitable, of one who...is meerly a man in general, an impartial Spectator who considers our conduct with the same indifference with which we regard that of other people".Quoted in Phillipson, pp.