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" Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity. But when it lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the same, the compassion is greater, because then there appeareth more probability... "
The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works - Página 13
por Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 377 páginas
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1

George Campbell - 1801 - 462 páginas
...thought it a sufficient stretch, in order to render the sympathetic sorrow purely selfish, to define it " imagination or " fiction of future calamity to ourselves,...proceeding " from the sense of another man's calamity f." But in the first quotation we have another kind of fiction ; namely, that we are at present the...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 páginas
...of the fiction with the truth." This is going farther than even Hobbes ; who de-i fines '• pity, imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense" (sight or knowledge) " of another man's calamity." The disciples of the EpU curean school, ancient...
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History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Volume 1

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 páginas
...while human nature is made of its present materials.' — Bentham's Deontology, vol. ii. p. 133. 1 ' Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity...deserved the same, the compassion is greater, because there then appeareth more probability that the same may happen to us ; for the evil that happeneth...
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Sermons

Joseph Butler - 1827 - 376 páginas
...affection, or passion, the object of which is ourselves, or danger to ourselves. Hobbs defines pity, imagination, or fiction, of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense (he means sight, or knowledge) of another man's calamity. Thus, fear and compassion would be the same...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 páginas
...works of his predecessors. I allude to the account of Pity given by Hobbes, who defines it to be " the imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves...proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity." * In what respect this theory coincides with Mr. Smith's, will appear from the remarks I am now to...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

1830 - 644 páginas
...feeling, but from fore-thought or calculation of his own interests. Thus, ' Pity is the imagination of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity.' ' Laughter is occasioned by sudden glory in our eminence, or in comparison with the infirmity of others.'...
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The Monthly Review, Volume 15

1830 - 644 páginas
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 8

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1836 - 776 páginas
...Let me, however, rather err with Butler, than be right with Hobbes, in the idea that ' pity is merely imagination, or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense (he means sight or knowledge) of other men's calamity.' The sophistical and ensnaring author of the...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - 1838 - 460 páginas
...it a sufficient stretch, in order to render the sympathetic sorrow purely selfish, to define it, " imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity5." But in the first quotation we hare another kind of fiction ; namely, that we are at present...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 3;Volume 67

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 páginas
...accomplish his own de' sires, but to assist others in theirs.' As to pity, he defines it ' the imagination of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from ' the sense of another man's calamity.'* On his system, love to our fellow-creatures is impossible ; and there is no conceivable motive for...
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