For Smith, moral philosophy is the study of virtue and the faculty of mind that allows us to determine what is praise- or blameworthy conduct. When we understand the project of the moral sentiments, we can see that Smith adopts the same logic in his analysis of political economy. Political economy provides a lens through which to hone sensibilities about virtue and good conduct. While Adam Smith has often been thought of as only the father of economics, most scholars now agree that the projects undertaken in the two books published during his lifetime, Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS)
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