 | Andres Marroquin - 2002 - 165 стор.
...the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us til we go into the grave Though the principle of expence, therefore, prevails in almost all men upon... | |
 | Terry Peach - 2003 - 256 стор.
...the principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our condition; a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...those two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instance in which any man is so perfectly and completely satisfied with his situation as to be without... | |
 | Joel Jay Kassiola - 2003 - 260 стор.
...principle, which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which thought generally calm and dispassionate comes with us from...into the grave. In the whole interval which separates these two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant in which any man is so perfectly and completely... | |
 | Martin Cohen - 2003 - 354 стор.
...the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave . . . Compare that with the 'moral impulse', which even on the most generous estimate would leave a... | |
 | Pierre Force - 2003 - 300 стор.
...could argue that Smith saw the desire to better our condition as an instinct: "a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave.""8 However, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith equates "that great purpose of human life... | |
 | E. Ray Canterbery - 2003 - 314 стор.
...economic self-reliance were perfectly natural, grounded in "the desire of bettering our condition," which "comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." 4 Economic self-interest is morally beneficial, too: "I have never known much good done," says Smith,... | |
 | Mark Olssen, John A Codd, Anne-Marie O'Neill - 2004 - 340 стор.
...kindness, nevertheless the acquisitive drives were recognized by him as persistent: 'a desire which though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave' (Smith, 1976b: 341).24 In The Wealth of Nations (1976b: 341), Smith saw men as actuated by the 'desire... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2004 - 384 стор.
...the desire of bettering our condition, a desire that, though generally calm and dispassionate, conies with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In the whole interval that separates those two moments, there is scarce, perhaps, a single instance in which any man is so... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2010 - 375 стор.
...our condition" that counterpoises the temporality of the "calm and dispassionate" (that desire that "comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave") against the volatility and inconstancy of the prodigal's "passion for present enjoyment." Classical... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - 2009 - 352 стор.
...happiness, what is Smith telling us about the restless desire to better our condition when he says that it "comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave" (WN 341)? And third, is the entire "invisible hand" account of social phenomena just a literal description... | |
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... the principle which prompts to expense is the passion for present enjoyment, which, though sometimes violent and very difficult to be restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save is the desire of... 
