...selfish man may be there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to...of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, an emotion of the moral sentiments, by which we feel for the misery of others, or joy and pleasure...

...question in the opening passage of his work : — " How selfish soever man may be supposed," says he, " there are evidently some principles in his nature...him, though he derives nothing from it except the plea\ sure of seeing it ; of this kind is pity or compassion, words appropriated to signify our fellow...

...question in the opening passage of his work : — " How selfish soever man may be supposed," says he, " there are evidently some principles in his nature...of seeing it ; of this kind is pity or compassion, words appropriated to sig nify our fellow feeling with the sorrow of others." " Sympathy," he adds*...

...question in the opening passage of his work : — " How selfish soever man may be supposed," says he, " there are evidently some principles in his nature...of seeing it ; of this kind is pity or compassion, words appropriated to signify our fellow feeling with the sorrow of others." "Sympathy," he adds, "...

...question in the opening passage of his work : — " How selfish soever man may be supposed," says he, " there are evidently some principles in his nature...of seeing it ; of this kind is pity or compassion, words appropriated to sig nify our fellow feeling with the sorrow of others." "Sympathy," he addsf...

...Against this conclusion Smith's " Theory " was the earliest reaction. He says, — " How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." " To denote this fellow-feeling with any passion whatever," — he uses the term sympathy — which...

...may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." " To denote this fellow-feeling with any passion whatever,"—he uses the term sympathy—which " enlivens...

...intention of Adam Smith when he says, at the opening of his chapter Of Sympathy, " how selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles...of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion." Mr Darwin, also, is of opinion that sympathy is an instinct " especially directed towards beloved objects,...

...Theory of the Moral Sentiments, which is a full resume of his theory, is as follows: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it." And this is no empty declaration on his part. It is the thought which of all in his book is nearest...

...Mandeville, but the key-note to the whole spirit of his philosophy. " How selfish soever," he begins, " man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it." So that pity or compassion, which Hobbes had explained as the consciousness of a possible misfortune...