tegwick
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Restructure entity storage from per-chapter subdirectories to a flat
canonical set in output/entities/. Each entity exists as a single file;
duplicates across chapters are detected by slug collision and skipped
(first occurrence wins). Chapter views use {{ include }} transclusion
to reference shared entity files.
Add @{existing_entities} macro to extract-entities template so the LLM
knows which entities already exist and focuses on genuinely new ones.
Refactor _call_llm() from _execute_llm() for callers that handle their
own file I/O. 41 unique entities from 4 chapters (2 duplicates removed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Benevolence
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## Definition
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The disposition to do good to others out of goodwill rather than self-interest.
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Smith argues that benevolence is an insufficient basis for economic organisation
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in a complex society. While a person may secure the friendship of a few through
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appeals to benevolence, they cannot rely on it to obtain the co-operation of
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the "great multitudes" they need in civilised life. Even beggars, who depend
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chiefly on benevolence for their subsistence, conduct most of their actual
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transactions through exchange.
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## Source Chapter
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Book I, Chapter 2: "Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division
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of Labour"
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## Context
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Benevolence serves as the foil to self-interest. Smith systematically argues
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that while benevolence exists, it cannot scale to support the complex
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interdependencies of a specialised economy, making self-interested exchange
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the necessary coordinating mechanism.
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## Economic Domain
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General Theory
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