[Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes]@TWC D-Link bookLeviathan CHAPTER VI 6/11
Thirdly, from the consideration of many of them together.
Fourthly, from the Alteration or succession it selfe. Hope-- For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE. Despaire-- The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE. Feare-- Aversion, with opinion of Hurt from the object, FEARE. Courage-- The same, with hope of avoyding that Hurt by resistance, COURAGE. Anger-- Sudden Courage, ANGER. Confidence-- Constant Hope, CONFIDENCE of our selves. Diffidence-- Constant Despayre, DIFFIDENCE of our selves. Indignation-- Anger for great hurt done to another, when we conceive the same to be done by Injury, INDIGNATION. Benevolence-- Desire of good to another, BENEVOLENCE, GOOD WILL, CHARITY.
If to man generally, GOOD NATURE. Covetousnesse-- Desire of Riches, COVETOUSNESSE: a name used alwayes in signification of blame; because men contending for them, are displeased with one anothers attaining them; though the desire in it selfe, be to be blamed, or allowed, according to the means by which those Riches are sought. Ambition-- Desire of Office, or precedence, AMBITION: a name used also in the worse sense, for the reason before mentioned. Pusillanimity-- Desire of things that conduce but a little to our ends; And fear of things that are but of little hindrance, PUSILLANIMITY. Magnanimity-- Contempt of little helps, and hindrances, MAGNANIMITY. Valour-- Magnanimity, in danger of Death, or Wounds, VALOUR, FORTITUDE. Liberality-- Magnanimity in the use of Riches, LIBERALITY Miserablenesse-- Pusillanimity, in the same WRETCHEDNESSE, MISERABLENESSE; or PARSIMONY; as it is liked or disliked. Kindnesse-- Love of Persons for society, KINDNESSE. Naturall Lust-- Love of Persons for Pleasing the sense onely, NATURAL LUST. Luxury-- Love of the same, acquired from Rumination, that is Imagination of Pleasure past, LUXURY. The Passion Of Love; Jealousie-- Love of one singularly, with desire to be singularly beloved, THE PASSION OF LOVE.
The same, with fear that the love is not mutuall, JEALOUSIE. Revengefulnesse-- Desire, by doing hurt to another, to make him condemn some fact of his own, REVENGEFULNESSE. Curiosity-- Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not onely by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by praedominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continuall and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnall Pleasure. Religion Superstition; True Religion-- Feare of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publiquely allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, superstition.
And when the power imagined is truly such as we imagine, TRUE RELIGION. Panique Terrour-- Feare, without the apprehension of why, or what, PANIQUE TERROR; called so from the fables that make Pan the author of them; whereas in truth there is always in him that so feareth, first, some apprehension of the cause, though the rest run away by example; every one supposing his fellow to know why.
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