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T 3.3.1.7

SBN 575-6 · cited directly by 0 papers, reached by 5 more through page or section ranges

We may begin with considering a-new the nature and force of sympathy. The minds of all men are similar in their feelings and operations, nor can any one be actuated |by any affection, of which all others are not, in some degree, susceptible. As in strings equally wound up, the motion of one communicates itself to the rest; so all the affections readily pass from one person to another, and beget correspondent movements in every human creature. When I see the effects of passion in the voice and gesture of any person, my mind immediately passes from these effects to their causes, and forms such a lively idea of the passion, as is presently converted into the passion itself. In like manner, when I perceive the causes of any emotion, my mind is convey'd to the effects, and is actuated with a like emotion. Were I present at any of the more terrible operations of surgery, 'tis certain, that even before it begun, the preparation of the instruments, the laying of the bandages in order, the heating of the irons, with all the signs of anxiety and concern in the patient and assistants, wou'd have a great effect upon my mind, and excite the strongest sentiments of pity and terror. No passion of another discovers itself immediately to the mind. We are only sensible of its causes or effects. From these we infer the passion: And consequently these give rise to our sympathy.

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GalIagher 1992" (575)
T 3.3.1 (5 paragraphs)
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…les of the mind, which extend over the whole conduct and enter into the personal character" (575). Although "the mind…
Ainslie 1995(T 575)
T 3.3.1 (5 paragraphs)
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…ons by relating them to their character-sources, which in turn cause the moral sentiments (T 575). We must, however, …
Spector 19983.3.1
T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs)
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…-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 3.3.1 The Fiction of Self…
3.3.1
T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs)
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…vol. i, and it remained a standard thought experiment through the eighteenth century. See 3.3.1, for more on the Sh…
3.3.1
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…about rights, justice and even personal identity, as we see with both Locke and Hume. See 3.3.1 note, for more on p…
3.3.1
T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs)
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…ror made in the supposition of bodily continuity. ## 3.3 The Epistemological Problem ## 3.3.1 The Fiction of Self…
3.3.1
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…. 252. !8l am grateful to Candace Vogler for prompting me to clarify the difference. See 3.3.1 for a discussion of…
Ainslie 1999(T 575)
T 3.3.1 (5 paragraphs)
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…us, which causes love or pride; and any one vicious, which causes hat red or humi l i ty" (T 575). Virtue and vice ar…
(T 575, 581, 582, 584, 592)
T 3.3.1.3 to T 3.3.2.2 (14 paragraphs)
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…ntal qualities" (T 574, 575, 577, 578, 579, 58a, 587, 59 ~ 591, 598, 6o6, 618), "persons" (T 575, 581, 582, 584, 592), "acUons" (T 471, 4…
Ainslie 2003T 3.3.1
T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs)
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…es - qualities useful or agreeable to the trait's possessor or to those who surround her (T 3.3.1) - offer little hel…