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. The American Journal of Sociology - الصفحة 8المحررون: - 1914عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 872
...explain the existence of benevolent sentiments, that "how selfish soever man may be supposed, there are some principles in his nature, which interest him...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." On this basis Smith could develop an ethical theory taking account of nonegoistic behavior. He believed... | |
| Jean-Christophe Agnew - 1986 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...selfish soever man may be supposed," the opening paragraph began, "there are evidently some principles in nature, which interest him in the fortune of others,...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." Even the "greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society," Smith argued, was not... | |
| Marc Reed Tool, Warren J. Samuels - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...presented in the opening sentence of Theory of Moral Sentiments: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it" [44. p. 3 Vs The "altruism-egoism" controversy has been judged "the matrix of Smith's scholarly concerns"... | |
| W. W. Rostow - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 733
...opens with the following not sufficiently quoted sentence: "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 Wealth of Nations is more nearly a conventional treatise than Hume's selective, brief tracts... | |
| Arthur A. Stein - 1990 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...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." Quoted in Wilson, "Sympathy and Self-interest," p. 73. 5. This is the strategy taken by economists.... | |
| Jon Elster, John E. Roemer - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...(1963) discussion of "extended sympathy." As Adam Smith put it: 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, which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive it in a very... | |
| James Q. Wilson - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...sympathy. Again Smith announces his intention in the first sentences: no matter how selfish man may appear to be, "there are evidently some principles in his...derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it."16 Smith explains that we acquire sympathy for the distress of others naturally, by imagining "what... | |
| Lauren Wispé - 1991 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...upon which little improvement has since been made. He wrote, How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it (TMS, p. 9). And he closed that same paragraph with the observation that "The greatest ruffian, the... | |
| J. Gay Tulip Meeks - 1991 - عدد الصفحات: 190
...detour. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith writes: 'How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it' (1976, p. 9). This principle in man's nature which no doubt is a true principle, may be thought to... | |
| Alfie Kohn - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 417
...other major book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, as follows: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...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... | |
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