1. Adam smith
Sympathy is a common feeling that an individual may have with the affections or feelings of another person. The source of this feeling is not so much one's observation of the expressed emotion of another person as one's thought of the situation that the other person confronts. ... If one approves of another's passion as suitable to their object, he thereby sympathizes with that person. ... Such an impartial appraisal is possible because a person's conscience enables him to compare his own feelings with those of others. ... It was the first serious attempt in the...
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