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

• Main Author: Slegers, Rosa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Issues in Business Ethics, 49
• Subjects: Ethics.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Business.; Management science.; Language and Literature.; Business and Management, general.

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 p...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A profile of Becky Sharp
• Chapter 1 - To be quiet and very much interested
• Chapter 2 - Educating the martial spirit
• Chapter 3 - Ambition, the poor man's son, and the poor man's daughter
• Chapter 4 - The self-estimation and self-command of a mighty conqueror
• Chapter 5 - Partial and impartial spectators in Vanity Fair
• Chapter 6 - An industrious knave becomes respectable
• Conclusion.