Los ensayos de Adam Smith
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~250.000 palabras · 1209 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAAdam Smith. (n.d.). The Essays of Adam Smith [Los ensayos de Adam Smith]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith
- MLAAdam Smith. The Essays of Adam Smith [Los ensayos de Adam Smith]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith.
- ChicagoAdam Smith. The Essays of Adam Smith [Los ensayos de Adam Smith]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith.
Referencia de la edición que reproduce SigPhi: SigPhi es su reproducción digital, no el editor. El año de la edición no consta en los metadatos (por eso «n.d.») y el traductor solo aparece cuando consta.
De qué trata
Los ensayos que Smith dejó publicar: sobre la historia de la astronomía, el origen de las lenguas, la imitación en las artes y otros temas que no son economía.
Contexto e historia
Estos textos existen por poco. Smith hizo quemar sus papeles pocos días antes de morir, en 1790, y solo salvó lo que quiso que quedara; de una vida de manuscritos sobrevivió este puñado. El ensayo sobre la historia de la astronomía es el más interesante: explica por qué hacemos sistemas —para calmar la sorpresa y la incomodidad ante lo que no encaja—, y es una teoría de la ciencia escrita por el autor de La riqueza de las naciones.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…