 | Lawrence E. Blume, Steven N. Durlauf - 2006 - 396 páginas
...brother Theo The heart has reasons that Reason knows nothing about. — Blaise Pascal, Pensees (1670) How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...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,... | |
 | Eric D. Beinhocker - 2006 - 556 páginas
...lead to social benefit. But in his other great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith also said, "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others."6 In other words, Smith took a more rounded view of human behavior, one that acknowledged... | |
 | Kenneth Calman - 2006 - 557 páginas
...begins to grow the tStfi century But why think. Why not trie the expt. 1 John Hunter to Edward Jenner How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...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... | |
 | Neal Boortz, John Linder - 2009 - 226 páginas
...economist Adam Smith wrote that man's nature "interests] him in the fortunes of others, and render[s] their happiness necessary to him, though he derive[s]...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." In 1980, the top marginal tax rate was 70 percent. That means that every dollar at the margin that... | |
 | David Warsh - 2006 - 456 páginas
...may be supposed, there are certainly some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing except the pleasure of seeing it." Later in the book he adds, "The chief part of human happiness arises... | |
 | Robert E. Babe, Robert Babe - 2006 - 249 páginas
...beings, Smith in TMS insists that there also resides within the heart of each person 'some principles ... which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary for him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.'59 Whereas for Hobbes... | |
 | Byron C. Jones, Pierre Mormede - 2006 - 496 páginas
...(University of Texas Press, Austin, 1976). 51. Matthews, K.-A., Batson, CD, Horn, J. & Rosenman, R.-H. Principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others: The heritability of empathic concern for others. Journal of Personality 49, 237-247 (1981). 52. Zahn-... | |
 | Byron C. Jones, Pierre Mormede - 2006 - 496 páginas
...(University of Texas Press, Austin, 1976). 51. Matthews, K.-A., Batson, CD, Horn, J. & Rosenman, R.-H. Principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others: The heritability of empathic concern for others. Journal of Personality 49, 237-247 (1981). 52. Zahn-Waxler,... | |
 | John E. Hill - 2007 - 290 páginas
...social dimensions of his thought. The opening sentence in Theory of Moral Sentiments makes this clear: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." He also wrote that man "has a natural love for society," that nature "formed man for society," and... | |
 | H. W. de Jong, William G. Shepherd - 2007 - 342 páginas
...we have and how far they go in explaining our behaviour. Indeed, the opening paragraph in TMS reads: 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 we feel for the misery of others ... Smith is not an... | |
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How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. 
