A philosophical treatise on the passions ... / [T. Cogan].

  • Thomas Cogan
Date:
1800
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    life; others according as they relate to pall, prefent, or future time: as forrow principally refers to things paft ; joy and anger to prefent fcenes; hope and fear refpect futurity. The Academicians advanced that the principal paffions were fear, hope, joy, and grief. Thus Virgil; Hinc metuunt, cupiunt, gaudentque, dolentque. They included averfion and defpair under the fourth ; and hope, fortitude, and anger under de- fire. But not to obferve that this arrangement is much too general in fome refpects, and defective invothers; that the characters of hope, and of an- ger are too oppofite to each other, to be placed un- der the fame head; that anger has no particular claim to be clafTed with delire, excepting when it excites a defire of revenge, which is not alway the cafe ; and that defire is fo comprehenfive a term as to embrace numberlefs other affections; not to infift upon thefe objections, it is obvious that the paffions enumerated cannot be primitive or cardinal, fince fome other affections or paffions mull be prior to them : We mult love, or hate, before we can either defire, rejoice, or fear, or grieve. Dr. Hartly has arranged the Paffions under five grateful and five ungrateful ones. The grateful ones, are love, defire, hope, joy, and pleafng recol- c lection;
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