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Scholium 1 to Proposition 27 — Part III

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Latin

Hæc affectuum imitatio quando ad tristitiam refertur, vocatur commiseratio (de qua vide scholium propositionis 22 hujus) sed ad cupiditatem relata æmulatio, quæ proinde nihil aliud est quam alicujus rei cupiditas quæ in nobis ingeneratur ex eo quod alios nobis similes eandem cupiditatem habere imaginamur.

English (Elwes 1883)

This imitation of emotions, when it is referred to pain, is called compassion (cf. III. xxii. note); when it is referred to desire, it is called emulation, which is nothing else but the desire of anything, engendered in us by the fact that we conceive that others have the like desire.

Modern English

This imitation of affects, when it relates to sadness, is called pity (E3P22S); when it relates to desire, it is called emulation, which is therefore nothing other than the desire for something that arises in us from the fact that we conceive others similar to ourselves to have the same desire.

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