...Thirty years earlier Adam Smith had said in the first paragraph of The Theory of Moral Sentiments: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...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 in a very...

...Two millennia later, Adam Smith wrote, in his Theory of the Moral Sentiments, "How selfish so ever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles...it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others." Without compassion (sympathy), there would be no foundation...

...philosophy casts itself as a response is set in the first sentence of The Theory of Moral Sentiments: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." Smith wants to oppose the view that we empathize with others only when we think it to our advantage...

...understood there was another element to human nature that needed to be included in the economic framework: How selfish soever, man may be supposed, there are...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. ... That we often derive sorrow from the sorrow of others, is a matter of fact too obvious to require...

...explaining that there is something in us that encourages us to give even when we don't stand to benefit. "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it." But we can't donate to charities or underprivileged countries if we are poor; we can do this because...

...Theory of Moral Sentiments, which also studied human feelings and acts of benevolence. In it, he wrote: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it The greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without...

..."principles" of sociability, later identified as the need for recognition, consolation, and approbation, "which interest him in the fortune of others, and...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it" (9). Smith establishes the importance — in fact, the dominance — of visuality and spectacle from...

...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. . . Our imagination therefore attaches the idea of shame to all violations of faith. — Adam Smith,...

...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...derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.2 Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments INTRODUCTION Several factors influenced 18th century...

...wrong. In an opening passage that would challenge a Hobbes or a Bernard de Mandeville, Smith begins: nothing from it, except the pleasure 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 in a very...