When we consider the condition of the great, in those delusive colours in which the imagination is apt to paint it. Regarding custom, Smith argues that approbation occurs when stimuli are presented according to how one is accustomed to viewing them and disapprobation occurs when they are presented in a way that one is not accustomed to. What are the pangs of a mother, when she hears the moanings of her infant that during the agony of disease cannot express what it feels? Such is our aversion for all the appetites which take their origin from the body: all strong expressions of them are loathsome and disagreeable. And this is the behaviour which in his situation we most approve of; because we expect, it seems, that he should have more sympathy with our envy and aversion to his happiness, than we have with his happiness. Next, Smith puts forth that not only are the consequences of one’s actions judged and used to determine whether one is just or unjust in committing them, but also whether one’s sentiments justified the action that brought about the consequences. Some people faint and grow sick at the sight of a chirurgical operation, and that bodily pain which is occasioned by tearing the flesh, seems, in them, to excite the most excessive sympathy. He had, perhaps, lived long enough for nature. Its periods too are all irregular, sometimes very long, and sometimes very short, and distinguished by no regular pauses. III Of the final cause of this Irregularity of Sentiments; 4 … The sentiment or affection of the heart from which any action proceeds, and upon which its whole virtue or vice must ultimately depend, may be considered under two different aspects, or in two different relations; first, in relation to the cause which excites it, or the motive which gives occasion to it; and secondly, in relation to the end which it proposes, or the effect which it tends to produce. As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation. Yet by relating their misfortunes they in some measure renew their grief. Of the social Passions The sympathy, which my friends express with my joy, might, indeed, give me pleasure by enlivening that joy: but that which they express with my grief could give me none, if it served only to enliven that grief. They ought all of them to be matters of great indifference to us both; so that, though our opinions may be opposite, our affections may still be very nearly the same. We often feel a sympathy with sorrow when we would wish to be rid of it; and we often miss that with joy when we would be glad to have it. Annadiana Asher Ebsen, Perfect work you have done, this internet site is really cool with good information. Far fewer people know about his second most famous book A Theory of Moral Sentiments (which, incidentally, is where the term “invisible hand” actually comes from). In this way objects become fashionable. He longs for that relief which nothing can afford him but the entire concord of the affections of the spectators with his own. Sympathy, therefore, does not arise so much from the view of the passion, as from that of the situation which excites it. Smith argues that the influence of custom is reduced in the sphere of moral judgment. The insolence and brutality of anger, in the same manner, when we indulge its fury without check or restraint, is, of all objects, the most detestable. I can scarce form an idea of the agonies of my neighbour when he is tortured with the gout, or the stone; but I have the clearest conception of what he must suffer from an incision, a wound, or a fracture. Whenever we cordially congratulate our friends, which, however, to the disgrace of human nature, we do but seldom, their joy literally becomes our joy: we are, for the moment, as happy as they are: our heart swells and overflows with real pleasure: joy and complacency sparkle from our eyes, and animate every feature of our countenance, and every gesture of our body. The propriety of every passion excited by objects peculiarly related to ourselves, the pitch which the spectator can go along with, must lie, it is evident, in a certain mediocrity. These must be plain, open, and direct; determined without positiveness, and elevated without insolence; not only free from petulance and low scurrility, but generous, candid, and full of all proper regards, even for the person who has offended us. and in selves, than for those who give way to all the weakness of sorrow: this particular case, the sympathetic grief of the spectator appears to go beyond the original passion in the person principally concerned. To treat them in any respect as men, to reason and dispute with them upon ordinary occasions, requires such resolution, that there are few men whose magnanimity can support them in it, unless they are likewise assisted by familiarity and acquaintance. The beauty of a plain, the greatness of a mountain, the ornaments of a building, the expression of a picture, the composition of a discourse, the conduct of a third person, the proportions of different quantities and numbers, the various appearances which the great machine of the universe is perpetually exhibiting, with the secret wheels and springs which product them; all the general subjects of science and taste, are what we and our companion regard as having no peculiar relation to either of us. With regard to those objects which are considered without any peculiar relation either to ourselves or to the person whose sentiments we judge of; wherever his sentiments entirely correspond with our own, we ascribe to him the qualities of taste and good judgment. Nay, it is chiefly from this regard to the sentiments of mankind, that we pursue riches and avoid poverty. To disturb, or to put an end to such perfect enjoyment, seems to be the most atrocious of all injuries. As it is an idea, therefore, which occasions our uneasiness, till time and other accidents have in some measure effaced it from our memory, the imagination continues to fret and rankle within, from the thought of it. Small griefs are likely, and appropriately, turned into joke and mockery by the sufferer, as the sufferer knows how complaining about small grievances to the impartial spectator will evoke ridicule in the heart of the spectator, and thus the sufferer sympathizes with this, mocking himself to some degree. The word sympathy, in its most proper and primitive signification, denotes our fellow-feeling with the sufferings, not that with the enjoyments, of others. Smith makes clear that we should take very good care to not act on the passions of anger, hatred, resentment, for purely social reasons, and instead imagine what the impartial spectator would deem appropriate, and base our action solely on a cold calculation. If my animosity goes beyond what the indignation of my friend can correspond to; if my grief exceeds what his most tender compassion can go along with; if my admiration is either too high or too low to tally with his own; if I laugh loud and heartily when he only smiles, or, on the contrary, only smile when he laughs loud and heartily; in all these cases, as soon as he comes from considering the object, to observe how I am affected by it, according as there is more or less disproportion between his sentiments and mine, I must incur a greater or less degree of his disapprobation: and upon all occasions his own sentiments are the standards and measures by which he judges of mine. The effects of grief and joy terminate in the person who feels those emotions, of which the expressions do not, like those of resentment, suggest to us the idea of any other person for whom we are concerned, and whose interests are opposite to his. Politeness is so much the virtue of the great, that it will do little honour to any body but themselves. A smiling face is, to every body that sees it, a cheerful object; as a sorrowful countenance, on the other hand, is a melancholy one. Judgments of the first kind are irrelevant as long as one is able to share a sympathetic sentiment with another person; people may converse in total disagreement about objects of the first kind as long as each person appreciates the sentiments of the other to a reasonable degree. A misfortune of the other kind, how frivolous soever it may appear to be, has given occasion to many a fine one. There are, indeed, some cases in which we seem to approve without any sympathy or correspondence of sentiments, and in which, consequently, the sentiment of approbation would seem to be different from the perception of this coincidence. It is the vanity, not the ease, or the pleasure, which interests us. It is the misfortunes of Kings only which afford the proper subjects for tragedy. His sympathy with the person who feels those passions, exactly coincides with his concern for the person who is the object of them. There is a helplessness in the character of extreme humanity which more than any thing interests our pity. They cry to him with fury, to defend, or to revenge himself. On the contrary, it is always disagreeable to feel that we cannot sympathize with him, and instead of being pleased with this exemption from sympathetic pain, it hurts us to find that we cannot share his uneasiness. It is on account of this dull sensibility to the afflictions of others, that magnanimity amidst great distress appears always so divinely graceful. Smaller offences are always better neglected; nor is there any thing more despicable than that froward and captious humour which takes fire upon every slight occasion of quarrel. We are more apt to weep and shed tears for such as, in this manner, seem to feel nothing for them. He calls this sympathy, defining it “our fellow-feeling with any passion whatsoever” (p. 5). When we have dined, we order the covers to be removed; and we should treat in the same manner the objects of the most ardent and passionate desires, if they were the objects of no other passions but those which take their origin from the body. He also proposes a natural ‘motor’ response to seeing the actions of others: If we see a knife hacking off a person’s leg we wince away, if we see someone dance we move in the same ways, we feel the injuries of others as if we had them ourselves. This is the case with that strong attachment which naturally grows up between two persons of different sexes, who have long fixed their thoughts upon one another. The sympathy of the spectators supports him in the one case, and saves him from that shame, that consciousness that his misery is felt by himself only, which is of all sentiments the most unsupportable. is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. But it is not by accomplishments of this kind, that the man of inferior rank must hope to distinguish himself. A stranger passes by us in the street with all the marks of the deepest affliction; and we are immediately told that he has just received the news of the death of his father. 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. Society and conversation, therefore, are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity, if, at any time, it has unfortunately lost it; as well as the best preservatives of that equal and happy temper, which is so necessary to self-satisfaction and enjoyment. The poor man, on the contrary, is ashamed of his poverty. Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) Part I . But whatever may be the cause of sympathy, or however it may be excited, nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellow-feeling with all the emotions of our own breast; nor are we ever so much shocked as by the appearance of the contrary. We run not only to congratulate the successful, but to condole with the afflicted; and the pleasure which we find in the conversation of one whom in all the passions of his heart we can entirely sympathize with, seems to do more than compensate the painfulness of that sorrow with which the view of his situation affects us. 3 Section III: Of the Influence of Fortune upon the Sentiments of Mankind, with regard to the Merit or Demerit of Actions. The general idea of good or bad fortune, therefore, creates some concern for the person who has met with it, but the general idea of provocation excites no sympathy with the anger of the man who has received it. There is, however, a good deal of sympathy even with bodily pain. But the man who felt himself the object of such deadly resentment, from those whose favour he wished to gain, and whom he still wished to consider as his friends, had certainly lived too long for real glory; or for all the happiness which he could ever hope to enjoy in the love and esteem of his equals. What explains these disparate reactions is oneand the same feature of the book: that it consists largely of whatSmith himself calls “illustrations” of the workings of t… As we are unacquainted with his provocation, we cannot bring his case home to ourselves, nor conceive any thing like the passions which it excites. Since it is not possible to sympathize with bodily states or “appetites which take their origin in the body” it is improper to display them to others, according to Smith. If he should be reduced to beggary and ruin, if he should be exposed to the most dreadful dangers, if he should even be led out to a public execution, and there shed one single tear upon the scaffold, he would disgrace himself for ever in the opinion of all the gallant and generous part of mankind. When, at the request of the senate, he had the generosity to pardon Marcellus, he told that assembly, that he was not unaware of the designs which were carrying on against his life; but that, as he had lived long enough both for nature and for glory, he was contented to die, and therefore despised all conspiracies. IV: The same subject continued 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 feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them. As a friend is likely to engage in more sympathy than a stranger, a friend actually slows the reduction in our sorrows because we do not temper our feelings out of sympathizing with the perspective of the friend to the degree that we reduce our sentiments in the presence of acquaintances, or a group of acquaintances. Even when the people have been brought this length, they are apt to relent every moment, and easily relapse into their habitual state of deference to those whom they have been accustomed to look upon as their natural superiors. But it is quite otherwise with regard to those objects by which either you or I are particularly affected. V: Of the amiable and respectable virtues They forget, for a time, their infirmities, and abandon themselves to those agreeable ideas and emotions to which they have long been strangers, but which, when the presence of so much happiness recalls them to their breast, take their place there, like old acquaintance, from whom they are sorry to have ever been parted, and whom they embrace more heartily upon account of this long separation. In the suitableness or unsuitableness, in the proportion or disproportion which the affection seems to bear to the cause or object which excites it, consists the propriety or impropriety, the decency or ungracefulness of the consequent action. Temperance, by Smith’s account, is to have control over bodily passions. Smith also puts forth that anger, hatred, and resentment are disagreeable to the offended mostly because of the idea of being offended rather than the actual offense itself. Nothing is so soon forgot as pain. Section 2: Of the degrees of which different passions are consistent with propriety, Section 3: Of the effects of prosperity and adversity upon the judgment of mankind with regard to the propriety of action; and why it is more easy to obtain their approbation in the one state than the other, Chapter 2: Of the pleasure of mutual sympathy, Chapter 3: Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men by their concord or dissonance with our own, Chapter 5: Of the amiable and respectable virtues, We see firsthand the fortune or misfortune of another person, The fortune or misfortune is vividly depicted to us, The vividness of the account of the condition of another person, Whether other people are involved in the emotion, 1 When the objects of the sentiments are considered alone, 2 When the objects of the sentiments are considered in relation to the person or other persons, The “person principally concerned”: The person who has had emotions aroused by an object, The spectator: The person observing and sympathizing with the emotionally aroused “person principally concerned”, Chapter 1: Of the passions which take their origins from the body, Chapter 2: Of the passions which take their origins from a particular turn or habit of the imagination. In the middling and inferior stations of life, the road to virtue and that to fortune, to such fortune, at least, as men in such stations can reasonably expect to acquire, are, happily in most cases, very nearly the same. Even when the order of society seems to require that we should oppose them, we can hardly bring ourselves to do it. A 1 S first publication of the theory of moral sentiments, which was so long ago as the beginning of the year 1759, several corrections, and a good many illus-trations of the doctrines contained in it, have occurred to me. A person becomes contemptible who tamely sits still, and submits to insults, without attempting either to repel or to revenge them. They more frequently miscarry than succeed; and commonly gain nothing but the disgraceful punishment which is due to their crimes. We cannot enter into his indifference and insensibility. The first excite no sympathy; but the second, though they may excite none that approaches to the anguish of the sufferer, call forth, however, a very lively compassion. It is cruel, we think, in Nature to compel them from their exalted stations to that humble, but hospitable home, which she has provided for all her children. But I can much more easily overlook the want of this correspondence of sentiments with regard to such indifferent objects as concern neither me nor my companion, than with regard to what interests me so much as the misfortune that has befallen me, or the injury that has been done me. Compared with these, in his own times, and in his own presence, no other virtue, it seems, appeared to have any merit. The plaintive voice of misery, when heard at a distance, will not allow us to be indifferent about the person from whom it comes. What they feel, will, indeed, always be, in some respects, different from what he feels, and compassion can never be exactly the same with original sorrow; because the secret consciousness that the change of situations, from which the sympathetic sentiment arises, is but imaginary, not only lowers it in degree, but, in some measure, varies it in kind, and gives it a quite different modification. In such situations, therefore, we may generally expect a considerable degree of virtue; and, fortunately for the good morals of society, these are the situations of by far the greater part of mankind. We weep even at the feigned representation of a tragedy. He feels that it either places him out of the sight of mankind, or, that if they take any notice of him, they have, however, scarce any fellow-feeling with the misery and distress which he suffers. As in the common degree of the intellectual qualities, there is no abilities; so in the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. These attempts to excite compassion by the representation of bodily pain, may be regarded as among the greatest breaches of decorum of which the Greek theatre has set the example. The success of such people, too, almost always depends upon the favour and good opinion of their neighbours and equals; and without a tolerably regular conduct these can very seldom be obtained. We may often approve of a jest, and think the laughter of the company quite just and proper, though we ourselves do not laugh, because, perhaps, we are in a grave humour, or happen to have our attention engaged with other objects. Women, and men of weak nerves, tremble and are overcome with fear, though sensible that themselves are not the objects of the anger. For to what purpose is all the toil and bustle of this world? He had a step and a deportment which could suit only him and his rank, and which would have been ridiculous in any other person. Whatever is the passion which arises from any object in the person principally concerned, an analogous emotion springs up, at the thought of his situation, in the breast of every attentive spectator. Because these passions regard two people, namely the offended (resentful or angry person) and the offender, our sympathies are naturally drawn between these two. Thus, the utility of a judgment is “plainly an afterthought” and “not what first recommends them to our approbation” (p. 24). Nature, it seems, when she loaded us with our own sorrows, thought that they were enough, and therefore did not command us to take any further share in those of others, than what was necessary to prompt us to relieve them. I: Of the Principle of Self-approbation and of Self-disapprobation In order to produce this concord, as nature teaches the spectators to assume the circumstances of the person principally concerned, so she teaches this last in some measure to assume those of the spectators. We can enter into neither of them, but are astonished and confounded to see them. We grow weary of the grave, pedantic, and long-sentenced love of Cowley and Petrarca, who never have done with exaggerating the violence of their attachments; but the gaiety of Ovid, and the gallantry of Horace, are always agreeable. He makes clear that mutual sympathy of negative emotions is a necessary condition for friendship, whereas mutual sympathy of positive emotions is desirable but not required. The respect which we feel for wisdom and virtue is, no doubt, different from that which we conceive for wealth and greatness; and it requires no very nice discernment to distinguish the difference. I: Of Sympathy II: Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy III: Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men, by their concord or dissonance with out own IV: The same subject continued From whence, then, arises that emulation which runs through all the different ranks of men, and what are the advantages which we propose by that great purpose of human life which we call bettering our condition? The good old proverb, therefore, That honesty is the best policy, holds, in such situations, almost always perfectly true. Smith continues by noting that we assign value to judgments not based on usefulness (utility) but on similarity to our own judgment, and we attribute to those judgments which are in line with our own the qualities of correctness or truth in science, and justness or delicateness in taste. Adam Smith is best known for being the father of modern economics with the publishing of his magnum opus The Wealth of Nations. I: That though our sympathy with sorrow is generally a more lively sensation than our sympathy with joy, it commonly falls much more short of the violence of what is naturally felt by the person principally concerned We enter into the satisfaction both of the person who feels them, and of the person who is the object of them. And this is the case of all the passions which take their origin from the body: they excite either no sympathy at all, or such a degree of it, as is altogether disproportioned to the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. It is the remote effects of these passions which are agreeable; the immediate effects are mischief to the person against whom they are directed. Is it in depriving them of the frivolous good offices, which, had their friendship continued, they might have expected from one another? Political Theories Smith also proposes several variables that can moderate the extent of sympathy, noting that the situation that is the cause of the passion is a large determinant of our response: An important point put forth by Smith is that the degree to which we sympathize, or “tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels”, is proportional to the degree of vividness in our observation or the description of the event. It is not the sore foot, but the solitude, of Philoctetes which affects us, and diffuses over that charming tragedy, that romantic wildness, which is so agreeable to the imagination. These are the arts by which he proposes to make mankind more easily submit to his authority, and to govern their inclinations according to his own pleasure: and in this he is seldom disappointed. The frame of my body can be but little affected by the alterations which are brought about upon that of my companion: but my imagination is more ductile, and more readily assumes, if I may say so, the shape and configuration of the imaginations of those with whom I am familiar. Therefore, the original sufferer is likely to dampen her feelings to be in “concord” with the degree of sentiment expressible by the other person, who feels only due to the ability of one’s imagination. The person principally concerned, in “bring[ing] down emotions to what the spectator can go along with” (p. 30), demonstrates “self-denial” and “self-government” whereas the spectator displays “the candid condescension and indulgent humanity” of “enter[ing]into the sentiments of the person principally concerned.”. Likewise, bodily pain that induces fear, such as a cut, wound or fracture, evoke sympathy because of the danger that they imply for ourselves; that is, sympathy is activated chiefly through imagining what it would be like for us. Their benefits can extend but to a few. When observing the anger of another person, for example, we are unlikely to sympathize with this person because we “are unacquainted with his provocation” and as a result cannot imagine what it is like to feel what he feels. This is appropriate as the spectator appreciates the lucky individual’s “sympathy with our envy and aversion to his happiness” especially because this shows concern for the inability of the spectator to reciprocate the sympathy toward the happiness of the lucky individual. Prudence, indeed, would often advise us to bear our prosperity with more moderation; because prudence would teach us to avoid that envy which this very triumph is, more than any thing, apt to excite. It is not the value of what they lose by the perfidy and ingratitude of those they live with, which the generous and humane are most apt to regret. As he is conscious how much he is observed, and how much mankind are disposed to favour all his inclinations, he acts, upon the most indifferent occasions, with that freedom and elevation which the thought of this naturally inspires. Bell in Edinburgh. What a tragedy would that be of which the distress consisted in a colic. This is a ‘relief’ model of mutual sympathy, where mutual sympathy heightens the sorrow but also produces pleasure from relief “because the sweetness of his sympathy more than compensates the bitterness of that sorrow” (p. 14). In the beneficial or hurtful nature of the effects which the affection aims at, or tends to produce, consists the merit or demerit of the action, the qualities by which it is entitled to reward, or is deserving of punishment. Compassion soon takes the place of resentment, they forget all past provocations, their old principles of loyalty revive, and they run to re-establish the ruined authority of their old masters, with the same violence with which they had opposed it. V: Of the selfish Passions Nothing, however, could be more absurd than to say it was virtuous. The sentiments of the spectators are, in this last case, less wide of those of the sufferer, and their imperfect fellow-feeling lends him some assistance in supporting his misery. We dread both to be contemptible and to be contemned. As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we love our neighbour, or what comes to the same thing, as our neighbour is capable of loving us. We sympathize with the fear, though not with the agony of the sufferer. Even our sympathy with the grief or joy of another, before we are informed of the cause of either, is always extremely imperfect. To attain to this envied situation, the candidates for fortune too frequently abandon the paths of virtue; for unhappily, the road which leads to the one, and that which leads to the other, lie sometimes in very opposite directions. There is something agreeable even in the weakness of friendship and humanity. If, notwithstanding, we are often differently affected, it arises either from the different degrees of attention, which our different habits of life allow us to give easily to the several parts of those complex objects, or from the different degrees of natural acuteness in the faculty of the mind to which they are addressed. Keep writing.” Stephen Goldston, You produce quality content, congratulations on this, I think it is a fluent sharing, I will recommend your site to my friends, I get very useful information on your page, I feel lucky. 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