 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.  Life of Adam Smith - Сторінка 65автори: Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 161 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Dennis Carl Rasmussen - 2010 - 208 стор.
...the very first line of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, where Smith writes that "how selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles...nature, which interest him in the fortune of others" (TMS Iiii, 9). This is so, of course, because people tend to put themselves in the position of others... | |
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