HoPE notes: June 5 I

scribbles from Medema's first part on Physiocracy on onenote notes.
Smith:
Morality must start from common elements in human nature.
Sympathy; the foundation of morality. A common element of human nature. Claims that morality comes from within; where do these come from?
ToMS: lectures to young (14-16 yrs old) students. Also has an element of trying to shape the morality of the students?
Scottish enlightenment philosophers often go from observation. So, less of a deductive method.
Smith: ethical prescipts are codified rules that are ad-hoc rationalizations of our own moral feelings/sentiments. These sentiments are given to us 'by nature'. Viner didn't like ToMS as much because it can't explain the nasty things people do to each other. [READ THIS VINER ESSAY, 1926?]
[Should really real the ToMS for the social economics interest]
[Books to read/write: history of social economics, history of morality in economics. DO THESE EXIST?]
'stage theories of philosophical history': [whats this? at this point in time, philosophical usually means scientifically]
AS problem: WoN and ToMS, one based on self-interest and one based on sympathy. QJE (1930), Overton Taylor, according to Bruce one of the best responses to this problem, he sees them as complementary. Look at Viner's essay on the tension between the two approaches.
ToMS taken up by Vernon Smith, society as mirror to society. 
On a history of the role of morality in positivist economic theory: [HOPE conference: keeping faith losing faith, bateman, more about religion and how its importance changed with more modern econ]. Steven mentioned he might have something on the shelf that he will look at.