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1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 50 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Marcus Harris. |
| Summary |
An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by Which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. to Which Is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages. 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. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner. That we often derive sorrow from the sorrow of others, is a matter of fact too obvious to require any instances to prove it; for this sentiment, like all the other original passions of human nature, is by no means confined to the virtuous and humane, though they perhaps may feel it with the most exquisite sensibility. The greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without it. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
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Ethics.
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| Added Author |
Haakonssen, Knud, 1947-
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781669358008 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1669358003 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14929605 |
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