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There are a few things I would like to put on the table in relation to Smith's view on
self-interest, learned or innate behavior and on 'human nature in general'.
 
In Smith's phrase on the baker, butcher and brewer, Smith states that people are not so
much self-interested by nature but that in market relations one addresses the other
person's self interest.
 
An important thing that Smith brings forward is that social stratification is not based on
natural differences but rather that all men are equal and that the difference between a
professor in philsophy and a porter are learned differences.
 
The differences between women and men however, seem for Smith to go much deeper, although
he addressed these differences only implicitly and then assumes them fixed.
 
Edith Kuiper 
 
 
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