Adam Smith (1723-1790)G.P. Putnam's sons, 1881 - 201 páginas |
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... particular man or country , just as the definitions of geometry are independent of any particular straight lines or triangles . To deny , for example , that a man should do for others what he would wish done for himself was , according ...
... particular man or country , just as the definitions of geometry are independent of any particular straight lines or triangles . To deny , for example , that a man should do for others what he would wish done for himself was , according ...
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... particular point of view taken by each ; and in the explanation which he himself elaborated , he thought that some part or other of his system embraced and coincided with whatever was true in the different theories of his predecessors ...
... particular point of view taken by each ; and in the explanation which he himself elaborated , he thought that some part or other of his system embraced and coincided with whatever was true in the different theories of his predecessors ...
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... particular turn of the imagina- tion , the unsocial Passions , the social Passions , and the selfish Passions . And whatever doubts may be felt as to the truth of Adam Smith's general theory of the origin of moral appro- bation , there ...
... particular turn of the imagina- tion , the unsocial Passions , the social Passions , and the selfish Passions . And whatever doubts may be felt as to the truth of Adam Smith's general theory of the origin of moral appro- bation , there ...
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... particular turn , cannot sympathize with the passion , and so finds it in some measure ridiculous . This is particularly the case with the passion of love . We may sympathize with our friend's resentment , if he has been in- jured , or ...
... particular turn , cannot sympathize with the passion , and so finds it in some measure ridiculous . This is particularly the case with the passion of love . We may sympathize with our friend's resentment , if he has been in- jured , or ...
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... particular persons . Ingratitude therefore cannot be punished . It is improper , and meets with the disapprobation of the spectator , but it is not wrong or immoral , in the sense in which it would be , if it went a step further , and ...
... particular persons . Ingratitude therefore cannot be punished . It is improper , and meets with the disapprobation of the spectator , but it is not wrong or immoral , in the sense in which it would be , if it went a step further , and ...
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