 | Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes - Rhetoric - 1833 - 488 pages
...which is Nought, if the Giver know the fault. And in this manner a man may go over the Prsedicaments, and examine a benefit, whether it be a Grace for being...or for being Such, or for being Now, etc. CHAP. X. i < if Pity, or Compassion. PITY is a perturbation of the mind, arising from the apprehension of hurt... | |
 | Aristotle - 1857 - 532 pages
...which is Nought, if the Giver know the fault. And in this manner a man may go over the Praedicaments, and examine a benefit, whether it be a Grace for being...happen to himself, or his. And because it appertains to Pity, to think that he, or his may fall into the misery he pities in others, it follows that they be... | |
 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1890 - 538 pages
...which is Nought, if the Giver know the fault. And in this manner a man may go over the Praedicaments, and examine a benefit, whether it be a Grace for being...happen to himself, or his. And because it appertains to Pity, to think that he, or his may fall into the misery he pities in others, it follows that they be... | |
 | Aristotle - Rhetoric, Ancient - 1890 - 540 pages
...which is Nought, if the Giver know the fault. And in this manner a man may go over the Praedicaments, and examine a benefit, whether it be a Grace for being...Pity, or Compassion. PITY is a perturbation of the rniud, arising from the apprehension of hurt or trouble to another that doth not deserve it. and which... | |
 | Leo Strauss - Philosophy - 1963 - 191 pages
...defect of ability, is Shame . . . and consisteth in the apprehension of some thing dishonourable. . . . Pity is a perturbation of the mind, arising from the...happen to himself or his. And because it appertains to pity to think that he, or his, may fall into the misery he pities in others; it follows that they be... | |
 | Leo Strauss - Philosophy - 1963 - 191 pages
...interest'. Cf. Protagoras, 347 0-348 A with 338 E ff. 1 Aristotle defined pity and indignation thus: 'Pity is a perturbation of the mind, arising from...hurt or trouble to another that doth not deserve it. ... Indignation ... is grief for the prosperity of a man unworthy.' Hobbes takes over this definition... | |
 | Arnold W. Green - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 184 pages
...clanking apparatus aside, he never wavered in finding self-interest grinning behind the noblest emotions: "Pity is a perturbation of the mind, arising from...trouble to another that doth not deserve it, and which [a person] thinks may happen to himself or his."5 Hobbes's determined stand on universal selfishness... | |
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X. Of Pity, or Compassion. PITY is a perturbation of the mind, arising from the apprehension of hurt or trouble to another that doth not deserve it. and which he thinks may happen to himself, or his. And because it appertains to Pity, to think that he,... 