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.
[Our senses] never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are [another man’s] sensations.
Neither can that faculty help us to this any other way, than by representing to us what would be our own, if we were in his case. It is the impressions of our own senses only, not those of his, which our imaginations copy.
ADAM SMITH
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The “Theory of Moral Sentiments” and “Wealth of Nations” together encompass one single behavioral axiom that, broadly interpreted, is sufficient to characterize a major portion of the human social and cultural enterprise: it explains why human nature appears to be simultaneously self-regarding and other-regarding.
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