Els assaigs d'Adam Smith
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- APAAdam Smith. (n.d.). The Essays of Adam Smith [Els assaigs d'Adam Smith]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith
- MLAAdam Smith. The Essays of Adam Smith [Els assaigs d'Adam Smith]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith.
- ChicagoAdam Smith. The Essays of Adam Smith [Els assaigs d'Adam Smith]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith.
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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.
that call forth our fellow-feeling. Whatever is the passion which arises from any object in the person principally concerned, an analogous emotion springs up, at the thought of his situation, in the breast of every attentive spectator. Our joy for the deliverance of those heroes of tragedy or romance who interest us, is as sincere as our grief for their distress, and our fellow-feeling with their misery is not more real than that with their happiness. We enter into their gratitude towards those faithful friends who did not desert them in their difficulties; and we heartily go along with their resentment against those perfidious traitors who injured, abandoned, or deceived them. In every passion of which the mind of man is susceptible, the emotions of the by-stander always correspond to what, by bringing the case home to himself, he imagines should be the sentiments of the sufferer. {11} Pity and compassion are words appropriated to signify our fellow-feeling with the sorrow of others. Sympathy, though its meaning was, perhaps, originally the same, may now, however, without much impropriety, be made use of to denote our fellow-feeling with any passion whatever. Upon some occasions sympathy may seem to arise merely from the view of a certain emotion in another person. The passions, upon some occasions, may seem to be transfused from one man to another, instantaneously, and antecedent to any knowledge of what excited them in the person principally concerned. Grief and joy, for example, strongly expressed in the look and gestures of any one, at once affect the spectator with some degree of a like painful or agreeable emotion. A smiling face is, to everybody that sees it, a cheerful object; as a sorrowful countenance, on the other hand, is a melancholy one. This, however, does not hold universally, or with regard to every passion.…