 | Michael Novak - 1992 - 170 Seiten
..."both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." See this remarkable eulogy, in the form of a letter from Adam Smith to William Strahan, November 9,... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 Seiten
...epitaph to Hume with the judgment that Hume had approached 'as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit' " (TMS Appendix II, p. 40i). With Socrates, of course, there was no general curiosity about the prospects... | |
 | Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter - 1993 - 260 Seiten
...necessary, a man who, according to Adam Smith, approached "as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit," it is hardly to be expected that my lectures will be free from vanity. However, a natural tendency... | |
 | Robin Paul Malloy, Jerry Evensky - 1994 - 250 Seiten
...both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' (Smith, 1977, pps. 217, 221) Due to human frailty it is a point beyond reach, a point that few (a la... | |
 | Thomas V. Morris - 1994 - 298 Seiten
...him, both in his lifetime and since his death as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. At the same time, it has also been said about Hume that his vanity to show himself superior to most... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 Seiten
...him during his last days, described Hume "as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." (Smith's encomium outraged his religiously orthodox contemporaries, for given Hume's reputation as... | |
 | David Hume - 1998 - 396 Seiten
...known. ... I have always considered him ... as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' The public was shocked at this praise of an atheist and sceptic, and Smith w as shocked by the public... | |
 | Margaret Atherton - 1999 - 288 Seiten
...both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." (Dialogues, 247-48) Selected Bibliography The following are monographs or anthologies covering Locke,... | |
 | Isabel Rivers - 2000 - 407 Seiten
...both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.'" Smith, who was apprehensive about the reception of the as yet unpublished Dialogues, was clearly unprepared... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2001 - 226 Seiten
...him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." (In the Phaedo, Plato says: "Such was the end ... of our friend [Socrates]; concerning whom I may truly... | |
| |
Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. 
