...vainglory. 'Imagination' thus constitutes these passions, as it does most of the others (such as pity, which is 'imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's present calamity'). As we shall see presently, vainglory plays a key role in the political theory put...

...the imagination that the like calamity may befall oneself. In Human Nature, however, Hobbes says that pity is 'imagination or fiction of future calamity...proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity', and Butler criticizes this. Hobbes's definition of pity in Human Nature certainly is egoistic and is...

...or benevolence are to be redescribed as really self-interested. Thus, for instance, pity for Hobbes 'is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity'.2 As Hume put it, a 'Hobbist' tries to 'explain every affection to be self-love, twisted...

...prior understanding of the sorrow. 1 Compare Hobbea's account: 'Pity is tlie imagination or Jiel1on of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity.' (Human Nature, chap. ix. lo, Moleaworth's edition of works, Vol. IV,) When we compare our sympathy...

...affection, a passion, the object of which is ourselves, or danger to ourselves. Hobbes defines pity, imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense, he means sight or knowledge, of another man's calamity. Thus fear and compassion would be the same...