T 3.3.2.3
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This principle of sympathy is of so powerful and insinuating a nature, that it enters into most of our sentiments and passions, and often takes place under the appearance of its contrary. For 'tis remarkable, that when a person opposes me in any sentiment, which I am strongly bent upon, and rouzes up my passion by contradiction, I have always a degree of sympathy with him, nor does my commotion proceed from any other origin. We may here observe an evident conflict or rencounter of opposite principles and passions. On the one side there is that passion or sentiment, which is natural to me; and 'tis observable, that the stronger this passion is, the greater is the commotion. There must also be some passion or sentiment on the other side; and this passion can proceed from nothing but sympathy. The sentiments of others can never affect us, but by becoming, in some measure, our own; in which case they operate upon us, by opposing and encreasing our passions, in the very same manner as if they had been originally deriv'd from our own temper and disposition. While they remain conceal'd in the minds of others, they can never have any influence upon us: And even when they are known, if they went no farther than the imagination, or conception; that faculty is so accustom'd to objects of every different kind, that a mere idea, tho' contrary to our sentiments and inclinations, wou'd never alone be able to affect us.
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| Spector 1998 | 3.3.2 T 3.3.2 (21 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …Fiction of Self......................................................................123 3.3.2 Skepticism Unleashe… |
| 3.3.2 T 3.3.2 (21 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … tie up our "bundles." (See Annette Baier, "On Heaps and Bundles" op. cit.) 663.2.1. ## 3.3.2 Skepticism Unleashe… | |
| Greco 2015 | T 3.3.2 T 3.3.2 (21 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …cts of each other's moral evaluations, thanks to the principle of sympathy (see T 2.1.11; T 3.3.2). In this case, we … |