COCI C1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: General Idea
26 Jan 2016
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Moral sentiment: sympathy feeling with the passions of others. Mirroring the situation ( as we have no immediate experience of what other men feel ) Part 1, sec 1, ch 1: of sympathy. Man: has a natural tendency to care about the well-being of others (pleasure of seeing them happy) Sympathy produced when: 1) see firsthand the fortune or misfortune, 2) fortune/misfortune is depicted vividly (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Degree of sympathy: proportional to degree of vividness in our observation: sympathy: pertains to joy and pain. Knowledge of emotions: produces greater sympathy: responses are often conditional. Part 1, sec 1, ch 2: pleasure and mutual sympathy. Mutual sympathy: heightens the original emotion ; relief model. Sympathizing w/ neg emotions: necessary condition for friendship: healing consolation. Part 1, sec 1, ch 3: approval/disapproval of other feelings. Approval: depends on ability to sympathize with others" emotions determines sense of justice.
