T 3.3.2.4
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The second principle I shall take notice of is that of comparison, or the variation of our judgments concerning objects, according to the proportion they bear to those with which we compare them. We judge more of objects by comparison, than by their intrinsic worth and value; and regard every thing as mean, when set in opposition to what is superior of the same kind. But no comparison is more obvious than that with ourselves; and hence it is that on all occasions it takes place, and mixes with most of our passions. This kind of comparison is directly contrary to sympathy in its operation, as we have observ'd in treating of compassion |and malice.[84] In all kinds of comparison an object makes us always receive from another, to which it is compar'd, a sensation contrary to what arises from itself in its direct and immediate survey. The direct survey of another's pleasure naturally gives us pleasure; and therefore produces pain, when compar'd with our own. His pain, consider'd in itself, is painful; but augments the idea of our own happiness, and gives us pleasure.
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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 … |