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Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments in Vanity Fair: Lessons in Business Ethics from Becky Sharp

Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments in Vanity Fair: Lessons in Business Ethics from Becky Sharp

Slegers, Rosa

Hardcover

Series: Issues in Business Ethics, Book 49

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ISBN10: 3319987305
ISBN13: 9783319987309
Publisher: Springer
Published: Sep 27 2018
Pages: 187
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

According to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise: a vain person is much more likely than a person with low self-esteem to accomplish great things. Problematic as it may be from a moral perspective, vanity makes a person more likely to succeed in business, politics and other public pursuits. The great secret of education, Smith writes, is to direct vanity to proper objects: this peculiar vice can serve as a stepping-stone to virtue. How can this transformation be accomplished and what might go wrong along the way? What exactly is vanity and how does it factor into our personal and professional lives, for better and for worse?

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