Rewriting a “Delicacy of Empathy”: Hume’s Many Meanings of “Sympathy”
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Page 1 of 17 © Lou Agosta, Ph.D. [email protected] By “sympathy” Hume does not mean the particular sentiments of pity or compassion or benevolence but rather the function of communicating affect in general. Sympathy reverses the operation of the understanding, which converts impressions of sensation into ideas. In the case of sympathy, the operation is in the other direction. Sympathy arouses ideas in the recipient that are transformed into impressions – though this time impressions of reflection -through the influence of the ideas. Thus, the operation of sympathy:
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