Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Spinoza's Ethics: III.P24 - Hatred Gives Opposite to Others

Si aliquem imaginamur lætitia afficere rem quam odio habemus, odio etiam erga eum afficiemur. Si contra eundem imaginamur tristitia eandem rem afficere, amore erga ipsum afficiemur.

If we imagine anyone affects with joy the thing which we hate, also we will be affected with hatred toward it. On the other hand if we imagine the same person affects the same thing with sadness, we will be affected by love toward itself.

DEMONSTRATIO: Demonstratur eodem modo hæc propositio ac propositio 22 hujus, quam vide.

It is shown in the same way this proposition and IIIP22, which you check out.

SCHOLIUM: Hi et similes odii affectus ad invidiam referuntur, quæ propterea nihil aliud est quam ipsum odium quatenus id consideratur hominem ita disponere ut malo alterius gaudeat et contra ut ejusdem bono contristetur.

These and similar affects of hatred are borne to jealousy, which beside nothing other than hatred itself insofar as it is considered that the human thus takes joy to arrange as hate to another and in contrast saddened at the good of the same.

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