...to have been the intention of Adam Smith when he says, at the opening of his chapter Of Sympathy, " how selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion." Mr Darwin, also, is of opinion that sympathy is an instinct "...

...sentence of his Theory of the Moral Sentiments, which is a full resume of his theory, is as follows: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...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...

...Mandeville, but the key-note to the whole spirit of his philosophy. " How selfish soever," he begins, " man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles...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...

...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...

...admit, in the language of Adam Smith beginning his treatise on ' The Theory of Moral Sentiments,' that ' How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...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 composing...

...the facts he found unselfishness staring him in the face. Take the opening sentences of his book : " How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...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...

...unselfishness staring him in the v tace. Take the opening sentences ot his book: "How selfisrfsbever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles...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, 5 when we either...

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...(1795). Philosophy. — Smith is an opponent _of the Hobbean egoism in ethics. " How-selfish-soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles...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...

...the moral faculty. He begins by stating that sympathy is the origin and source of moral approbation. "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...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...