• A French approach based on the triangularity
of human desire
— Mimetic desire and social autopoiesis
— Adam Smith’s third party : the spectator
• The logic of sympathy
— Sympathy is not benevolence
— Sympathy presupposes a separation of beings, mitigated by the
— Sympathy does not find its origin in selfishness
— Sympathy is not contagion, but…
• The ambivalence of sympathy
— The science of morality
— The science of society (economics)
• Conclusion. The emancipation of economics
and the unity of Smith’s social philosophy
• Bibliography