# Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Joseph Butler, Continued

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/self-interest-and-social-order-in-classical-liberalism-joseph-butler-continued>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** June 28, 2017

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George H. Smith continues his discussion of Joseph Butler’s theory of moral psychology, and summarizes his ideas about conscience and rational self-interest.

[Originally published in essay form on December 19, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/self-interest-social-order-classical-liberalism-joseph-butler-continued)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._