Resumo O presente artigo visa localizar a economia política na filosofia moral de Adam Smith, em particular, sua separação da jurisprudência. Defende-se que o fundamento para tal separação deve ser buscado na tipologia das paixões desse autor, tal qual apresentada na Teoria dos sentimentos morais. As paixões sociáveis, egoístas e insociáveis produzem, cada uma, um tipo específico de interação social, cada um sendo regulado por uma virtude diferente, respectivamente, benevolência, prudência e justiça. Duas dessas séries se organizam como objetos de duas ciências diferentes, a saber, a jurisprudência natural e a economia política.
Abstract The current paper aims at locating political economy in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy, in particular, its detachment from jurisprudence. It advocates that the basis for this separation is to be founded in Smith’s typology of passions, presented in the Theory of Moral Sentiments. The sociable, the selfish and the unsociable passions all beget a particular kind of social interaction, which is regulated by a different virtue, respectively, beneficence, prudence and justice. Two of these series appear as the object of two different sciences, namely, natural jurisprudence and political economy.
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