 | Emilio Santoro - 2003 - 306 ページ
...argues that human beings are only moved by «the desire of bettering our condition» and says that «an augmentation of fortune is the means by which...of men propose and wish to better their condition» tSmith. 1776 [ 1981]. 3411. In 109 «We can never survey our own sentiments and motives. we cim never... | |
 | Joel Jay Kassiola - 2003 - 260 ページ
...completely satisfied with his situation, as to be without any wish of alteration or improvement of any kind. An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the...of men propose and wish to better their condition. 20 Note the significant similarity of Smith's view to Hobbes's: the central modern idea of the insatiability... | |
 | Joel Jay Kassiola - 2003 - 260 ページ
...completely satisfied with his situation, as to be without any wish of alteration or improvement of any kind. An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the...greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition.20 Note the significant similarity of Smith's view to Hobbes's: the central modern idea of... | |
 | Pierre Force - 2003 - 300 ページ
...commercial society encourages the vanity of men to express itself as a "wish to better their condition," and "an augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose"143 to satisfy this wish. As to the "love to domineer," it is also based on the principle of... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 ページ
...satisfied with his situation, as to be without any wish of alteration or improvement, of any kind. An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the...of men propose and wish to better their condition. It is the means the most vulgar and the most obvious; and the most likely way of augmenting their fortune,... | |
 | Mark Olssen, John A Codd, Anne-Marie O'Neill - 2004 - 340 ページ
...by the 'desire of bettering [their] condition' and as motivated by 'an augmentation of fortune [as] the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition'. Self-interest In Albert Hirschman's (1977: 48) view, the importance of self-interest was not simply... | |
 | Jerry Evensky - 2005 - 364 ページ
...only moral to be prudent, it is encouraged by our natural desire for "bettering our condition... [For a]n augmentation of fortune is the means by which...of men propose and wish to better their condition" (WN, 341). This desire and the ethic it nurtures make Smith sanguine with respect to private accumulation... | |
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An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition. 
