...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...

...beginning his treatise on ' The Theory of Moral Sentiments,' 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.' The conclusions to which we are now brought are, that the state is nothing apart from the individuals...

...erftenë ber @inletiung§fa£ au3 vol. I Part. I Sect. 1 Ch. 1: „How selfish soever man may be supposed there are evidently some principles in his nature...he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of feeling it. Of this kind is pity or compassion — " jreeiteng bie 3KitteIfteHung, toeld)e ©mitC in...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 man nunmehr, wie sich die Tugend zu diesen beiden Grundaffekten unserer Seele verhalte, ob sie...

...the opening sentence of this Theory of Moral Sentiments: "How selfish so every man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." Y/ith regard to the whence and the whither of the "moral" sentiments, Smith wrote: "Upon whatever we...

...exploration of the sentiment of sympathy, which interests a man "in the fortune of others, and renders their happiness necessary to him, though he derives...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it." Nevertheless Smith believed that the most persistent, the most universal, and therefore the most reliable...