The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 03 (of 11) — Thomas Hobbes — John Shaqi
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 03 (of 11)
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_Pusillanimity_ in the same, WRETCHEDNESS, MISERABLENESS, or PARSIMONY;
as it is liked or disliked.
[Sidenote: Kindness.]
_Love_ of persons for society, KINDNESS.
[Sidenote: Natural lust.]
_Love_ of persons for pleasing the sense only, NATURAL LUST.
[Sidenote: Luxury.]
_Love_ of the same, acquired from rumination, that is, imagination of
pleasure past, LUXURY.
[Sidenote: The passion of love.]
[Sidenote: Jealousy.]
_Love_ of one singularly, with desire to be singularly beloved, THE
PASSION OF LOVE. The same, with fear that the love is not mutual,
JEALOUSY.
[Sidenote: Revengefulness.]
_Desire_, by doing hurt to another, to make him condemn some fact of his
own, REVENGEFULNESS.
[Sidenote: Curiosity.]
_Desire_ to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living
creature but _man_: so that man is distinguished, not only by his
reason, but also by this singular passion from other _animals_; in whom
the appetite of food, and other pleasures of sense, by predominance,
take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that
by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable
generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal
pleasure.
[Sidenote: Religion.]
[Sidenote: Superstition.]
[Sidenote: True religion.]
_Fear_ of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales
publicly allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, SUPERSTITION. And when the
power imagined, is truly such as we imagine, TRUE RELIGION.
[Sidenote: Panic terror.]
_Fear_, without the apprehension of why, or what, PANIC 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. And therefore this passion happens to none but in a
throng, or multitude of people.
[Sidenote: Admiration.]
_Joy_, from apprehension of novelty, ADMIRATION; proper to man, because
it excites the appetite of knowing the cause.
[Sidenote: Glory.]
_Joy_, arising from imagination of a man’s own power and ability, is
that exultation of the mind which is called GLORYING: which if grounded
upon the experience of his own former actions, is the same with
_confidence_: [Sidenote: Vain-glory.] but if grounded on the flattery of
others; or only supposed by himself, for delight in the consequences of
it, is called VAIN-GLORY: which name is properly given; because a well
grounded _confidence_ begetteth attempt; whereas the supposing of power
does not, and is therefore rightly called _vain_.
[Sidenote: Dejection.]
_Grief_, from opinion of want of power, is called DEJECTION of mind.
The _vain-glory_ which consisteth in the feigning or supposing of
abilities in ourselves, which we know are not, is most incident to young
men, and nourished by the histories, or fictions of gallant persons; and
is corrected oftentimes by age, and employment.
[Sidenote: Sudden glory.]