| Adam Smith - 1812 - 642 pages
...defire to pleafe, and an original averfion to oftend his brethren. She taught him to feel pleafure in their favourable, and pain in their unfavourable regard. She rendered their approbation mofl flattering and mod agreeable to him for its own fake ; and their difapprobation moll mortifying... | |
| Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 pages
...would view it, he thoroughly enters into all the motives which influenced it. He looks back upon every part of it with pleasure and approbation, and though...to please, and an original aversion to offend his brethren. She taught him to feel pleasure in their favourable, and pain in their unfavourable regard.... | |
| Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pages
...acquire after death a renown which they could no longer enjoy. Their imagination, in the mean time, anticipated that fame which was in future times to...to please, and an original aversion to offend his brethren. She taught him to feel pleasure in their favourable, and pain in their unfavourable regard.... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - 1878 - 536 pages
...fact is based is far from admissible. When man was formed for society, he certainly was not endowed " with an original desire to please, and an original aversion to offend his brethren," nor with the desire to be what others ought to approve of, or " what he himself approves... | |
| James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 250 pages
...ethics. Man, having been intended by nature for society, was fitted by her for that situation. Hence she endowed him with an original desire to please, and an original aversion to offend, his brethren. By teaching him to feel pleasure in their favourable, and pain in their unfavourable regards,... | |
| James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 228 pages
...him with an original desire to please and an original aversion to offend his fellows, and, by making him to feel pleasure in their favourable, and pain in their unfavourable regards, taught him to love their approbation, and to dislike their disapproval, she yet saw that this... | |
| Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 636 pages
...necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. « — ADAM SMITH. Nature, when she formed man for society, endowed him...to please, and an original aversion to offend his brethren. She taught him to feel pleasure in their favourable, and pain in their unfavourable regard.... | |
| 1907 - 506 pages
...second was necessary in order to inspire him with the real love of virtue". 2 A a. 0. 3, 2, ebenda: „nature, when she formed man for society, endowed...to please, and an original aversion to offend his brethren." Selbst wo .uns Hafs erfüllt, wollen wir doch nicht das Werkzeug sein, das das Übel bringt... | |
| Zenas Clark Dickinson - 1922 - 328 pages
...our account of it, of the instinctive desire for the approval of one's fellows. Nature, says Smith, when she formed man for society, endowed him with...to please, and an original aversion to offend, his brethren. The All-wise Author of Nature has, in this manner, taught man to respect the sentiments and... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science. Section F (Economics) - 1977 - 248 pages
...that social survival is as important to a sensitive man as physical survival. Man has, Smith believed, 'an original desire to please, and an original aversion to offend his brethren' (MS p. 170), and it is this drive which makes him both a scientist (since observation of... | |
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