On friendship and neccessitudo in Adam Smith

dc.contributor.author	Hill, L.
dc.contributor.author	McCarthy, P.
dc.date.issued	2004
dc.description	© 2004 SAGE Publications
dc.description.abstract	Adam Smith (1723–90) provided a novel and subtle account of the new social physics that emerged to accommodate the economic changes taking place in his time. This article explores Smith’s views on the effect of commercialization on friendship, and then questions one prominent interpretation of his approach, that of Allan Silver. Against the contested reading, we argue that the new ‘strangership’ described by Smith is not warm, but rather, cool-friendship enhancing. We suggest that Cicero’s treatment of friendship illuminates Smith’s views on this topic.
dc.description.statementofresponsibility	Lisa Hill and Peter McCarthy
dc.identifier.citation	History of the Human Sciences, 2004; 17(4):1-16
dc.identifier.doi	10.1177/0952695104048070
dc.identifier.issn	0952-6951
dc.identifier.issn	1461-720X
dc.identifier.orcid	Hill, L. [0000-0002-9098-7800]
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2440/15885
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
dc.source.uri	https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695104048070
dc.subject	friendship
dc.subject	impartial spectator
dc.subject	Adam Smith
dc.subject	strangership
dc.subject	sympathy
dc.title	On friendship and neccessitudo in Adam Smith
dc.type	Journal article
pubs.publication-status	Published

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