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Adam Smith, on the need for reigning in self-interest, and the need for sympathy/empathy:
āIf you have either no indignation at the injuries I have suffered, or none that bears any proportion to the resentment which transports me, we can no longer converse upon these subjects,ā he wrote. āWe become intolerable to one another. I can neither support your company, nor you mine. You are confounded at my violence and passion, and I am enraged at your cold insensibility and want of feeling.ā
Adam Smith, on the need for reigning in self-interest, and the need for sympathy/empathy:
āIf you have either no indignation at the injuries I have suffered, or none that bears any proportion to the resentment which transports me, we can no longer converse upon these subjects,ā he wrote. āWe become intolerable to one another. I can neither support your company, nor you mine. You are confounded at my violence and passion, and I am enraged at your cold insensibility and want of feeling.ā
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