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

  • Thomas Cogan
Date:
1800
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    The objects in our podedion, productive of this good, we delire to retain. We are confcious of this delire every time we appreciate the worth of the object, and it is necelfarily excited when we are under the apprehenlions of privation. If the good, or the means of good, be not in our podedion, we defire to obtain them ; if a privation be unjudly attempted by any one, and the padion of anger be excited, the deli re of prcfervingor recovering the object is connected with a defire to chadife the ag- greffor. If they be in danger from any other caufe, the fear of lofs is excited by the defire of fe- curing; and if we be actually deprived, the hope- lefs defire of regaining, is an effential ingredient ip our grief for the lofs. But although, in this philofophical fenfe, defire may appear to be equally extenfive with the af- fection of love, yet it is neceflarily more confined in its application. Love relates to all things which appear good and beneficial in themfelves, or to be- ings capable of receiving good. It comprehends die things enjoyed, and the date of plealing exidence in which tiiofe beings are actually placed, as well as the defirablenefs of fuch a date, and all the means and inftruments of good. Defire moltly refers to the date in which we are not. It lolicits fome fa- vourable change, and exerts itfelf to obtain it. Ha- d 2 tred
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