...philosophical deductions in The Theory of Moral Sentiments: "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...

..."exquisite sensibility" — balances the excesses of self-interest: 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...

...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,...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it". Indeed, charitable donations by individuals, both small-scale donors and super-rich, and by firms can...

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

...Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) with the proposition that "how selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it" (9). The moral philosopher David Hume argued that it was emotion not reason that made us act in benevolent...

...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,...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...

...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,...derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.'31 As economists, we wonder if the pleasure coming from the observation of someone else's pleasure...

...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,...derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it".1 That trust and altruism are more realistic behavioural assumptions than opportunism has been...

...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,...derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it."16 Unlike his mentor Hutcheson, Smith does not deny that Hobbes and Mandeville may be correct to...

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