T 3.3.3.4
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As love is immediately agreeable to the person, who is actuated by it, and hatred immediately disagreeable; this may also be a considerable reason, why we praise all the passions that partake of the former, and blame all those that have any considerable share of the latter. 'Tis certain we are infinitely touch'd with a tender sentiment, as well as with a great one. The tears naturally start in our eyes at the conception of it; nor can we forbear giving a loose to the same tenderness towards the person who exerts it. All this seems to me a proof, that our approbation has, in those cases, an origin different from the prospect of utility and advantage, either to ourselves or others. To which we may add, that men naturally, without reflection, approve of that character, which is most like their own. The man of a mild disposition and tender affections, in forming a notion of the most perfect virtue, mixes in it more of benevolence and humanity, than the man of courage and enterprize, who naturally looks upon a certain elevation of mind as the most accomplish'd character. This must evidently proceed from an immediate sympathy, which men have with characters similar to their own. They enter with more warmth into such sentiments, and feel more sensibly the pleasure, which arises from them.
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| Spector 1998 | 3.3.3 T 3.3.3 (9 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …kepticism Unleashed................................................................. 129 3.3.3 A Crisis of Method … |
| 3.3.3 T 3.3.3 (9 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …os, CA: William Kaufmann, Inc., in cooperation with Bryn Mawr College Library, 1981). ## 3.3.3 A Crisis of Method … | |
| 3.3.3 T 3.3.3 (9 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … relation to others. 6In particular, see THN 1.4.7.1, pp. 263-264, which is discussed in 3.3.3. Thus, in addition… |