Die Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Adam Smith: Zitate über Menschen
Adam Smith war schottischer Moralphilosoph, Aufklärer und Begründer der klassischen Nationalökonomie. Entdecken Sie interessante Zitate über menschen.
Untersuchungen über die Natur und die Ursachen des Nationalreichthums. Aus dem Englischen der vierten Ausgabe neu übersetzt. Zweyter Band. Breslau 1794. S. 206 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=XzdFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA206
Original engl.: "A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible." - The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book III Chapter 2: Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_III/Chapter_2
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Theorie der sittlichen Gefühle. Übersetzt von Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten. Leipzig 1791 S. 3 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=2P0AAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." - The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I Section I Chapter I: Of Sympathy (Der erste Satz des Buches). en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments/Part_I
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)