Els assaigs d'Adam Smith
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Text net
- Extensió:
- ~250.000 paraules · 1.209 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAAdam Smith. (n.d.). Els assaigs d'Adam Smith. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith
- MLAAdam Smith. "Els assaigs d'Adam Smith." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith.
- ChicagoAdam Smith. Els assaigs d'Adam Smith. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith.
De què tracta
Els assaigs que Smith va deixar publicar: sobre la història de l'astronomia, l'origen de les llengües, la imitació a les arts i altres temes que no són economia.
Context i història
Aquests textos existeixen per un pèl. Smith va fer cremar els seus papers pocs dies abans de morir, el 1790, i només va salvar el que va voler que quedés; d'una vida de manuscrits en va sobreviure aquest grapat. L'assaig sobre la història de l'astronomia és el més interessant: hi explica per què fem sistemes —per calmar la sorpresa i la incomoditat davant del que no encaixa—, i és una teoria de la ciència escrita per l'autor de la Riquesa de les nacions.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
powers of his memory. His weakness of body prevented him joining in athletic sports, but his generous and friendly temperament made him a favourite with his schoolmates; and he was noted then, as through after life, for absence in company and a habit of speaking to himself when alone. From the grammar school of Kirkaldy, he was sent, in 1737, to the University of Glasgow, whence, in 1740, he went to Baliol College, Oxford, enjoying an exhibition on the Snell foundation. When at Glasgow College, his favourite studies were mathematics and natural philosophy, but that did not long divert his mind from pursuits more congenial to him, more particularly the political history of mankind, which gave scope to the power of his comprehensive genius, and gratified his ruling passion of contributing to the happiness and the improvement of society. To his early taste for Greek generally, may be due the clearness and fulness with which he states his political reasonings. At Oxford he employed himself frequently in the practice of translation, with a view to the improvement of his own style, and used to commend such exercises to all who cultivate the art of composition. He also cultivated with the greatest care the study of languages; and his knowledge of them led him to a peculiar experience in everything that could illustrate the institutions, the manners, and the ideas of different ages and nations. the Rich and the Great, and to despise or neglect Persons of poor and mean Condition . . 56-60 ----- PART II. OF MERIT AND DEMERIT; OR, OF THE OBJECTS OF REWARD AND PUNISHMENT. SEC. I. Of the Sense of Merit and Demerit--Introduction 61 CH. I. That whatever appears to be the proper Object of Gratitude, appears to deserve Reward; and that, in the same Manner, whatever appears to be the proper Object of Resentment, appears to deserve Punishment . . . . . . 61-63 {6} CH. II. Of the proper Objects of Gratitude and Resentment . . . . . . 63-65 CH. III.…