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E3P27S2

Scholium 2 to Proposition 27 — Part III

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Latin

Hæc voluntas sive appetitus benefaciendi qui ex eo oritur quod rei in quam beneficium conferre volumus, nos miseret, benevolentia vocatur, quæ proinde nihil aliud est quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta. Cæterum de amore et odio erga illum qui rei quam nobis similem esse imaginamur, bene aut male fecit, vide scholium propositionis 22 hujus.

English (Elwes 1883)

This will or appetite for doing good, which arises from pity of the thing whereon we would confer a benefit, is called benevolence, and is nothing else but desire arising from compassion. Concerning love or hate towards him who has done good or harm to something, which we conceive to be like ourselves, see III. xxii. note.

Modern English

This will or appetite to do good, which arises from our pity for the thing on which we want to bestow a benefit, is called benevolence. It is nothing other than desire arising from compassion (E3P22S).

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