Les essais d'Adam Smith
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Texte propre
- Étendue:
- ~250 000 mots · 1 209 passages
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- APAAdam Smith. (n.d.). Les essais d'Adam Smith. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith
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- ChicagoAdam Smith. Les essais d'Adam Smith. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith.
De quoi il s'agit
Les essais que Smith a laissé publier : sur l'histoire de l'astronomie, l'origine des langues, l'imitation dans les arts et d'autres sujets qui ne sont pas d'économie.
Contexte et histoire
Ces textes existent de justesse. Smith fit brûler ses papiers quelques jours avant sa mort, en 1790, ne sauvant que ce qu'il voulait voir subsister ; d'une vie de manuscrits, cette poignée a survécu. L'essai sur l'histoire de l'astronomie est le plus intéressant : il explique pourquoi nous faisons des systèmes — pour apaiser la surprise et le malaise devant ce qui ne s'ajuste pas — et c'est une théorie de la science écrite par l'auteur de la Richesse des nations.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le 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.…