...remarks in the Theory of Moral Sentiments on the science are clear enough: it was to be 'a theory of the principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations'. 2 And the observation that immediately precedes this provides the rationale for Smith's criticisms...

..."treatise on the laws of war and peace" Smith celebrated as perhaps the most complete "system of those principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations."" In the Lectures on Jurisprudence, which he delivered as part of his teaching duties as Professor of Moral...

..."treatise on the laws of war and peace" Smith celebrated as perhaps the most complete "system of those principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations."33 In the Lectures on Jurisprudence, which he delivered as part of his teaching duties as...

...normatively natural is here determined by the impartial spectator's judgment. Therefore one might argue that the "general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations" just amount to the moral psychology of The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Smith's view about the origin...

...jurisprudence lectures, which correspond to the "theory" sketched at the conclusion of TMS — a theory of "the general principles which ought to run through,...and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations" — convey an extensive analysis of justice. 29. On the tensions between "the ordinary laws of justice"...

...[to] endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government" (by which he meant "the general principles which ought to run through...and be the foundation of the laws of all nations"), "and of the different revolutions they have undergone in the different ages and periods of society,...

...absolute knowledge or truth. Would they be content with that? Did not Dr. Smith expect to ascertain "the principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations" (Stewart, 1793[1980], p. 109; a quote from the conclusion of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments)1!...

...based. No appeal to the natural pungency of pain, or of sympathy with pain, can enable Smith to develop "the general principles which ought to run through...and be the foundation of the laws of all nations." Smith himself provides yet deeper resources for this point about the socially relative structure of...

...own innovations. Granted a longer life he would have made good his promise to develop 'a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations' (Smith 1976^ 342). Like Hume, he drew a sharp contrast between the strict, though negative, obligations...

...aim at establishing a system of what might properly be called natural jurisprudence, or a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations. But though the reasonings of lawyers did produce something of this kind... it was very late in the...