...conceptualization of sympathy's role in the formation of human societies: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it."16 Unlike his mentor Hutcheson, Smith does not deny that Hobbes and Mandeville...

...priority of our sympathetic attachments to others. "How selfish soever man may be supposed," he writes, "there are evidently some principles in his nature,...him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it."9 In making this claim, Smith is insisting on the naturalness and inevitability...

...found in Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments^ where he writes: 'How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.'31 As economists, we wonder if the pleasure coming from the observation of someone...

...(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976 [1759, 1790]), which begins: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it" (p. 9). The Smith who placed such emphasis on fellow-feeling is obviously not...

...actors' utility function.103 As already Adam Smith pointed out "how selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it".1 That trust and altruism are more realistic behavioural assumptions than opportunism...

...Adam Smith stated in his 1759 Theory of Moral Sentiments: "However selfish soever man may be disposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it". Indeed, charitable donations by individuals, both small-scale donors and super-rich,...

...opening sentence in Theory of Moral Sentiments makes this clear: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." He also wrote that man "has a natural love for society," that nature "formed...

...philosophical deductions in The Theory of Moral Sentiments: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery...

...underdeveloped sensibility. So, while Adam Smith begins with the claim, "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...others, and render their happiness necessary to him," he later contends, "Every savage ... is in continual danger.. .. He can expect from his countrymen...

...Smith, here is how these sentiments motivate our behavior: How selfish so ever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...others, and render their happiness necessary to him. Of this kind is pity and compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either...