 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 642 páginas
...fatisfaction, we muft become the impartial fpectators of our own character and conduct. We muft - endeavour to view- them with the eyes of other people, or as other people are likely to view them. When feen in this light, if they appear tons as we wilh, we are o 2 happy PART happy and contented.... | |
 | 1818 - 596 páginas
...to be suitable and meritorious which we conceive would meet with the " sympathy" of our neighbours. "We can never survey our own sentiments and motives,...people, or as other people are likely to view them." p. 179. Of course, we judge our neighbours by ourselves, and ourselves as we imagine our neighbours... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 páginas
...satisfaction, we must become the impartial spectators of our own character and conduct. We must endeavour to view them with the eyes of other people, or as other people are likely to view them. When seen in this light, if they appear to us as we wish, we are happy and contented. But it greatly... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 228 páginas
...own natural station, and by viewing them at a certain distance from us ; a proceeding only possible by endeavouring to view them with the eyes of other people, or as they are likely to view them. All our judgment, therefore, concerning ourselves must bear some secret... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1882 - 296 páginas
...unless we remove ourselves, as it were, from our own natural station, and endeavour to view them as at a certain distance from us. But we can do this in no other way than by endeavouring to vie\v them with the eyes of other people, or as other people arc likely to view them." 7 These elaborate... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - 1897 - 518 páginas
...unless we remove ourselves, as it were, from our own natural station, and endeavour to view them as at a certain distance from us. But we can do this...must always bear some secret reference, either to 298 SMITH. [Part III. what are, or to what, upon a certain condition, would be, or to what, we imagine,... | |
 | Georg Cohn - 1923 - 338 páginas
...unless we remove ourselyes, as it were, from our own natura! station, and endeavour to view them ES at a certain distance from us. But we can do this in no other way than by endeavouring to vicw them with the eyes of other people, or as other people are likely to view thetn. »») ibid. pag.... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 1989 - 254 páginas
...our own natural station, and endeavour to view them as at a certain distance from us [first move]. But we can do this in no other way than by endeavouring...other people, or as other people are likely to view them...We endeavour to examine our own conduct as we imagine any other fair and impartial spectator... | |
 | David Marshall - 1986 - 300 páginas
...ourselves, even if we are not in the presence of an actual spectator. According to Smith, we view ourselves "with the eyes of other people, or as other people are likely to view" us (110). This potential spectator leads to Smith's well-known concept of the "impartial spectator,"... | |
 | Stanford M. Lyman - 1989 - 372 páginas
...puts it, We must become the impartial spectators of our own character and conduct. We must endeavour to view them with the eyes of other people, or as other people are likely to view them. When seen in this light, if they appear to us as we wish, we are happy and contented. But it greatly... | |
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We can never survey our own sentiments and motives, we can never form any judgment concerning them ; unless we remove ourselves, as it were, from our own natural station, and endeavour to view them as at a certain distance from us. But we can do this... 
