 By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even...  A System of Phrenology - Page 485by George Combe - 1837 - 664 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Barbara Warnick - 1993 - 204 pages
...come to experience something similar. In his Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith described this process: "By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation,...person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensation and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them."38... | |
 | Elaine Hatfield, John T Cacioppo, Richard L Rapson - 1994 - 256 pages
...18th-century economic philosopher Adam Smith (1759/1976) observed: Though our brother is upon the rack ... by the imagination we place ourselves in his situation,...though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them. (p. 9) Such conscious reveries could spark a shared emotional response (Humphrey, 1922; Lang, 1985).... | |
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 | Steven Bruhm - 1994 - 210 pages
...chapters, philosophers such as Adam Smith, for whom the imagination puts us in the place of the sufferer: "we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments,...him, and thence form some idea of his sensations" (Moral Sentiments 9). This is the Man of Feeling as he comes to us in Mackenzie. While Smith does base... | |
 | Nathan L. Tierney - 1994 - 208 pages
...those of his, which our imaginations copy. By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation . . . we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him. 9 But, whereas Hume views the conative force of the imagination as primarily channeled through the... | |
 | Shamoon Zamir - 1995 - 316 pages
...of the sensations and sufferings of others: "By the imagination we place ourselves in [the other's] situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the...weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them." This sense of "fellow-feeling" Smith terms "sympathy." In Smith the moral faculty of sympathy works... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1995 - 265 pages
...imaginations copy. By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring with all the same torments, we enter as it were into his...though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them" (TMS, vol. 1, i, 1, p. 9). In The Wealth of Nations, Smith undeniably emphasizes the competition among... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1995 - 265 pages
...writes, "It is the impressions of our own senses only, not those of his, which our imaginations copy. By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring with all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same... | |
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