Adam Smith
Subtitle: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Contributors: Knud Haakonssen (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780521591508
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Political science & theory; Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600; Philosophy; History Of Economic Thought; Modern Ethics; Reference; Ethics--Early works to 1800; Political Science / Reference; Ethics; Early works to 1800
First sentence: 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.