He derived it as an important tool when he described the intermediate spaces between L and L log + L with the Peetre real ( K − ) method.
He derived it from the Greek word autós (αὐτός, meaning "self"), and used it to mean morbid self-admiration, referring to "autistic withdrawal of the patient to his fantasies, against which any influence from outside becomes an intolerable disturbance".
He had derived it in part from compromising experiences in the financial world that set him apart from Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, whose early careers were roughly paral- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Justin Kaplan's most recent book is "Walt Whitman: A Life". lel to his in other respects.
Agents complain about his grudges, producers about his micromanaging and news purists about his lack of respect for the traditions of TV journalism, but nearly everyone respects the sheer panache with which he runs his company, and the obvious joy he derives from it.
This is how it derives it power and status.
"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," Smith wrote.
Or try this for an eloquent defence of why the welfare state benefits not just the poor: "How selfish man be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others and render their happiness necessary to him though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it," wrote Adam Smith in the Theory of Moral Sentiments.
This quotation appears on the very first page of the "Theory of Moral Sentiments":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.Smith voices similar opinions when he mentions the "invisible hand".
And Adam Smith (1759/1853, I, I, 1. 1) tells us that "pity or compassion [is] the emotion we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner" and these emotions "interest [man] in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it".
From the first lines of the book Smith is clear about where his theory will take him, "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".
