The theory of moral sentiments, or, An essay towards an analysis of the principles by which men naturally judge. To which is added, A dissertation on the origin of languages1853 |
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Pagina xxvi
... direct sympathy with the person to whom the action is bene- ficial , and of a direct sympathy with the affections and motives of the agent . The same remark applies , mutatis mutandis , to our sense of demerit , or of ill - desert ...
... direct sympathy with the person to whom the action is bene- ficial , and of a direct sympathy with the affections and motives of the agent . The same remark applies , mutatis mutandis , to our sense of demerit , or of ill - desert ...
Pagina xxxv
... direct evidence , we are under a necessity of supplying the place of fact by conjecture ; and when we are unable to ascertain how men have actually conducted themselves upon particular occasions , of considering in what manner they are ...
... direct evidence , we are under a necessity of supplying the place of fact by conjecture ; and when we are unable to ascertain how men have actually conducted themselves upon particular occasions , of considering in what manner they are ...
Pagina xli
... direct op- position of his leading principles to all the old maxims of trade , he was able , before he quitted his situation in the university , to rank some very eminent merchants in the number of his pro- selytes . * Among the ...
... direct op- position of his leading principles to all the old maxims of trade , he was able , before he quitted his situation in the university , to rank some very eminent merchants in the number of his pro- selytes . * Among the ...
Pagina xlviii
... when this memoir was read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh , it was not unusual , even among men of some talents and direct the policy of future legislators ? The discussion , xlviii ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS.
... when this memoir was read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh , it was not unusual , even among men of some talents and direct the policy of future legislators ? The discussion , xlviii ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS.
Pagina xlix
Adam Smith. direct the policy of future legislators ? The discussion , however , to which this question leads , is of singular difficulty : as it re- quires an accurate analysis of by far the most complicated class of phenomena that can ...
Adam Smith. direct the policy of future legislators ? The discussion , however , to which this question leads , is of singular difficulty : as it re- quires an accurate analysis of by far the most complicated class of phenomena that can ...
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according actions admiration affection agreeable altogether appear applause approbation Aristotle attention beauty behaviour beneficence benevolence breast called casuistry casuists character Cicero conceive conduct consider contempt contrary death declensions degree deserve desire disagreeable dreadful emotions endeavour Epictetus Epicurus esteem excite express favour feel fellow-feeling fortune frequently friends gratitude greater greatest happiness honour human nature imagination impartial spectator impersonal verbs indignation injustice interest judge justice kind language mankind manner ment merit mind misfortunes moral sentiments motives never noun substantive observed occasions ourselves pain particular passions pathy perfect perhaps perly philosophers Plato pleasure praise prepositions principles proper object propriety prudence punishment qualities racter reason regard render resentment respect rules savage nations scarce seems seldom self-command sense sensibility situation Smith society sometimes sorrow species Stoics suffer superior supposed sympathy thing tion tural University of Glasgow vanity verbs virtue virtuous weakness Wealth of Nations words
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Pagina 4 - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm...
Pagina 3 - As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
Pagina l - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
Pagina 262 - It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. It is this which first prompted them to cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish human life; which have entirely changed the whole face of the globe, have turned the rude forests of nature into agreeable and fertile plains, and made the trackless and barren ocean a new fund of subsistence, and the...
Pagina 241 - The sum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind ; and our neighbour as ourselves.
Pagina lvi - By such maxims as these, however, nations have been taught that their interest consisted in beggaring all their neighbours. Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain as its own loss. Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations, as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.
Pagina 340 - When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear.
Pagina 341 - How well has he painted the man of system, and how many features of this portrait have we recognised in Mr. Bentham, and others of our day ! — " He is apt to be very wise in his own conceit, and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it.
Pagina 71 - To be observed, to be attended to, to be taken notice of with sympathy, complacency and approbation, are all the advantages which we can propose to derive from it. It is vanity, not the ease, or the pleasure, which interests us.
Pagina 505 - The assignation of particular names to denote particular objects, that is, the institution of nouns' substantive, would, probably, be one of the first steps towards the formation of language. Two savages, who had never been taught to speak, but had been bred up remote from the societies of men, would naturally begin to form that language, by which...