...sustained, offers the following assessment: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidendy some principles in his nature, which interest him...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. (A. Smith 1 790, Part I, Sec. I, Ch. I, p. 9) As with Hume and Ferguson, Smith is quite emphatic in...

...balancing relationship he has to outline: selfishness and sympathy. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it or are made to conceive it in a very lively...

...extensively about the universal human capacity for sympathy. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it (Smith 1759, 9). The evolutionary origins of this inclination are no mystery. All species that rely...

...first sentence of The Theory of Moral Sentiments reads: "However selfish soever man may he supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it." 34 Nor did Alfred Marshall, arguably the most prestigious nineteenth-century economist, begin from...

...making the point that we are, by our nature, social beings: 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) This connection is made through our capacity for "sympathy... [which] denote[s] our fellow-feeling...

...Inquiry, v. 17 (October 1979). 6 Indeed, Adam Smith also said: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. This is the opening sentence of The Theory of Moral Sentiments (17 '59). 7 This allegation has been...

...biological data allow inferences about moral behavior. Introduction "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." This famous sentence by Adam Smith (1759), which so nicely describes our empathic relation with others,...

...Augustus M. Kelley, Reprints of Economic Classics, 1966), 23, 26. "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it In the race for wealth and honours, and preferments, he may run as hard as he can, and strain every...

...and Ickes, 1997). Smith begins TMS with this statement: "How selfish soever a man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it" (Smith, 1969, p. 1). What principles are responsible for this? In TMS Smith speaks of two central principles:...

...human affairs in the first sentence of Moral Sentiments'. "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."6 With the word "selfish," Smith acknowledges the self-centered school of thought but immediately...