Of the Degrees of the Different Passions which are Consistent with Propriety
This has me thinking: do angry and hateful but anonymous/online comments “disturb our sympathy” in the same way?
They do in that we are wary of sympathizing with the angry, since we consider with whom they are angry as well, and we do not sympathise when we think the angry one is all out of proportion, as they so often are
This has me thinking: do angry and hateful but anonymous/online comments “disturb our sympathy” in the same way?
They do in that we are wary of sympathizing with the angry, since we consider with whom they are angry as well, and we do not sympathise when we think the angry one is all out of proportion, as they so often are