 | George Campbell - 1801 - 462 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 pages
...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... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1827 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 644 pages
...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.'... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1836 - 776 pages
...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... | |
 | George Campbell - 1838 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...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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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... 
