Die Essays von Adam Smith
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
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- Sauberer Text
- Umfang:
- ~250.000 Wörter · 1.209 Passagen
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Wovon es handelt
Die Essays, die Smith drucken ließ: über die Geschichte der Astronomie, den Ursprung der Sprachen, die Nachahmung in den Künsten und andere Gegenstände, die nicht Ökonomie sind.
Kontext und Geschichte
Diese Texte existieren nur knapp. Smith ließ seine Papiere wenige Tage vor seinem Tod 1790 verbrennen und rettete allein, was bleiben sollte; von einem Leben voller Handschriften überdauerte diese Handvoll. Der Aufsatz zur Geschichte der Astronomie ist der interessanteste: Er erklärt, warum wir Systeme bilden — um die Überraschung und das Unbehagen zu beschwichtigen, die das Unpassende auslöst —, und ist eine Wissenschaftstheorie aus der Feder des Verfassers des Wohlstands der Nationen.
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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.…