O espectador imparcial de Adam Smith e o observador ideal de John Rawls: uma crítica à ética utilitarista
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Adam Smith, John Rawls, Impartial spectator, Ideal observerAbstract
John Rawls justifies the utilitarianism on the conception of ideal observer that is present
on the theories of 18TH century Scottish sentimentalists, particularly on the theories of
David Hume and Adam Smith. As the thesis of utilitarianism is not so explicit and accessible
on the views of both Scottish philosophers, we intend, in this paper, to confront
the thesis of Smith´s impartial spectator and the critique of Rawls on the conception
of ideal observer as the foundation of utilitarianism. We observe greater breadth to the
impartial spectator in relation to the utilitarian ideal observer in moral choices.
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