| Cornelius Donovan - 1870 - 232 páginas
...and makes it the source of nearly every moral affection. " How selfish soever man 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 him, though he derives nothing from it... | |
| George Harris - 1876 - 588 páginas
...Conscience, however, probably bears its part in both these * " How selfish soever man 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 him, though he derives nothing from it... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - 1878 - 536 páginas
...when he says, at the opening of his chapter Of Sympathy, " how selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...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,... | |
| Wilhelm Roscher, Louis Wolowski, John Joseph Lalor - 1878 - 520 páginas
...Sentiments, which is a full resume of his theory, is as follows: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature...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... | |
| Wilhelm Roscher - 1878 - 496 páginas
...Sentiments, which is a full resume of his theory, is as follows: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature...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... | |
| James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 250 páginas
...spirit of his philosophy. " How selfish soever," he begins, " man may be supposed, there are eviclehtly some principles in his nature which interest him in...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... | |
| Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 184 páginas
...him in the face. Take the opening sentences of his book : " How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature...of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it or are made to conceive it,... | |
| Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1887 - 324 páginas
...beginning his treatise on ' The Theory of Moral Sentiments,' that ' How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.' The conclusions to which we are now brought are, that the state is nothing apart from the individuals... | |
| Karl Wasserrab - 1889 - 240 páginas
...erftenë ber @inletiung§fa£ au3 vol. I Part. I Sect. 1 Ch. 1: „How selfish soever man may be supposed there are evidently some principles in his nature...he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of feeling it. Of this kind is pity or compassion — " jreeiteng bie 3KitteIfteHung, toeld)e ©mitC in... | |
| Benjamin Chapman Burt - 1892 - 378 páginas
...— Smith is an opponent of the Hobbean egoism in ethics. " How-selfish-soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature...of seeing it. Of this kind is pity, or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others when we either see it, or are made to conceive it... | |
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