...concerns articulated in the famous opening sentence of the book: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. (Iiii) Smith insists that only the impartial spectator can teach the individual that he is "but one...

...attacks this position. Smith writes that How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidendy some principles in his nature, which interest him...derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.19 Smith grounds our capacity for moral behaviour in our ability, via the imagination, to sympathize...

...be supposed, there are evidently some principles of 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. ... The greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without...

...the first chapter of the volume, "Of Sympathy," as follows: "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."46 Like Rousseau in the second Discourse, Smith suggests that human nature is equipped with two...

...be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to...it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion we feel for the misery of others when we see it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner,...

...a fundamentally subversive doctrine." 4 But Smith observes that, no matter how selfish a person may be, "There are evidently some principles in his nature...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." 5 Adam Smith not only wrote two books about ethics but also was of two minds. He sees ultimate happiness...

...for character educators. 8 Character and the market economy 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, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759: 1) Preach the moral virtues of free enterprise and...

...the complexity of Smith's model of individual psychology: "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 9). Smith elaborates upon this sympathetic process several paragraphs later: "Whatever is the...

...self-interested Homo economicus than did Adam Smith, who wrote: "However selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it" (Smith 1969, 47). Interest in the fortunes of others is absent from mainstream analyses, which instead...

...included a charitable concern for the well-being of others: However 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 thereby observed that people feel sympathy or empathy for one another and can be expected...