...self-sacrificing — as expressions of self-interest. ' ' Pity, ' ' says the philosopher in question, " is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man 's calamity. ' ' 2 Charity or good- will, he thus explains: " There can be no greater argument...

...imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's present calamity ; but when it lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the same, the compassion is the greater, because then there appeareth the more probability that the same may happen to us. For...

...never provideth himself by a second way, but when he mistrusteth that the first will not hold. 10. PITY is imagination or fiction of future calamity...ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's present calamity ; but when it lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the same, the compassion...

...in which, in The Elements of Law, " Hobbes defines pity, clearly an other-interested emotion, as the "imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's present calamity." (El, I, ix, 10, 30-1; emphasis added) This is clearly an egoistic "conversion" of...

...turn. In Human Nature, first circulated around 1640, 42 pity is defined as "imagination or ßction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity." 43 According to Leviathan, begun after 1647 and published in 1651, "Grief for the calamity of another,...

...affection or passion, the object of which is ourselves, or danger to ourselves. Hobbes defines />i'(y, imagination, or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense (he means sight or knowledge) of another man's calamity 412 Of these two, delight in the prosperity...

...misery. . . . And such as think there be honest men. . . . Less compassionate (are) they that think no Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity...ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's present calamity ; but when it lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the same, the compassion...

...will be considering later, is provided by his discussion of pity and indignation (Pt.I.ch.9, 10-11). PITY is imagination or fiction of future calamity...ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's present calamity; but when it lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the same, the compassion...

...in the seventeenth century the sympathetic motivation of "pity" could be described by Hobbes as the "imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves...proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity" and by Rochefoucauld as "feeling our own suffering in those of others" and as a "shrewd precaution...

...for others is an emotion physiologically based in self-interest: Pity is imagination от fiction oï future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity. Hobbes likewise speaks of "good will or charity" as the enjoyment a man has "of his own power.. .to...