A philosophical treatise on the passions ... / by T. Cogan.

  • Thomas Cogan
Date:
1802
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    I 44 EFFICIENT CAUSES OF THE CH. II. Some of our paffions and affections are infpired by circumfiances which more immediately relate to Ourfelves, and to our own perfonal interefts: that is, they belong to the principle of Self-love: fome of them belong to the Social principle, and refer to our connections with our own fpecies, or to all ani- mated natures. In fome of our Paffions and Affections, the ide- as of Good are obvioufly predominant, in others the ideas of Evil. The paffions and affections, which relate to felf- love, and are excited by the idea of a good, may either refer to the good which is actually in our pof- fejfion, and communicate various degrees of enjoy- ment, from fimple gratification to eeffafies: or The good we love may not be in our poffeffion ; but it may appear attainable, and become the ob- ject of our Defire : or Though it be not in our poffeffion, circumffances may appear highly favourable to our attaining it, and it may thus infpire Hope. The flate in which Evil is the predominant idea, referring to ourfelves, may relate : To the lofs of that good which we poffeffed, or to difappointments refpecting the good we defired, and hoped to obtain; infpiring Sorrow, with its va-r rious modifications: or We
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