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T 2.2.2.19

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There is only one difficulty in this experiment, which it will be necessary to account for, before we proceed any farther. 'Tis evident, that tho' all passions pass easily from one object to another related to it, yet this transition is made with greater facility, where the more considerable object is first presented, and the lesser follows it, than where this order is revers'd, and the lesser takes the precedence. Thus 'tis more natural for us to love the son upon account of the father, than the father upon account of the son; the servant |for the master, than the master for the servant; the subject for the prince, than the prince for the subject. In like manner we more readily contract a hatred against a whole family, where our first quarrel is with the head of it, than where we are displeas'd with a son, or servant, or some inferior member. In short, our passions, like other objects, descend with greater facility than they ascend.

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Mcintyre 2009T 2.2.2.15, 19
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…eadily to their relations (to, that is, members of their family) and other acquaintances (T 2.2.2.15, 19). Further experienc…
Spector 19982.2.2
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….1 Conditions for Accountability..................................................... 48 2.2.2 Locke's Problem wit…
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…1. 221 will come back to the significance of this kind of prudential concern in 2.3. ## 2.2.2 The Problem with Im…
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…t., pp. 389-390. ^ Jo s e p h Butler, The Analogy o f Religion, op. cit., p. 393. 105in 2.2.2. Now this is just …