| John Mackintosh - 1896 - 532 páginas
...that sympathy is the origin and source of moral approbation. "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature...render their happiness necessary to him, though he desires nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it." Thus, sympathy being one of the original... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 páginas
...is evidently some principle in his nature which interests him in the fortune of others, and renders their happiness necessary to him ; though he derives...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." The full title of Adam Smith's great work, ordinarily given as simply the 'Wealth of Nations,' is 'An... | |
| Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - 1897 - 512 páginas
...OF THE SENSE OF PROPRIETY. CHAPTER I. — OF SYMPATHY. 251 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... | |
| Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 636 páginas
...wisdom has decreed That man of man should ever stand in need. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. « — ADAM SMITH. Nature, when she formed man for society, endowed him with an original desire to... | |
| Thomas Nixon Carver - 1905 - 826 páginas
...do even at the moment of their promulgation. XVI SYMPATHY1 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... | |
| Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 páginas
...SECTION I. OF THE SENSE OF PROPRIETY CHAPTER I. 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, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive... | |
| Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess - 1914 - 906 páginas
...of this type of approach goes back to Adam Smith: "How selfish, soever, man may be supposed to be, 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 either we see it or are made to conceive it... | |
| Oswald Fred Boucke - 1921 - 366 páginas
...opening sentence of his "Theory of the Moral Sentiments" reads: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." Thus formulating the problem he proceeds to solve it, the general course of his argument being sufficiently... | |
| Theo Surányi-Unger - 1923 - 418 páginas
...Prinzip: „How selfish soever man may be supposed", lesen wir gleich am Anfange der Theory, „their are evidently some principles in his nature, which...interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happines necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it". Fragt... | |
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