Wow nice passage. Smith’s anticipating the difference between reciprocal altruism vs mutualism in evolutionary biology, & articulating why it’s possible to deal with people who have no guilt or compassion (psychopaths) provided there is a system of justice that constrains their behaviour.
Wow nice passage. Smith’s anticipating the difference between reciprocal altruism vs mutualism in evolutionary biology, & articulating why it’s possible to deal with people who have no guilt or compassion (psychopaths) provided there is a system of justice that constrains their behaviour.
Don't we live in interesting times? Some of those early theorists would be calling from their graves "I told you so".