work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3476,"","Reading A. O. Hirschman's The Passions and the Interests. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997. p. 22.",2003-10-20 00:00:00 UTC,"But the poets and writers of histories are the best doctors of this knowledge; where we may find painted forth, with great life, how affections are kindled and incited; and how pacified and refrained; and how again contained from act and further degree; how they disclose themselves; how they work; how they vary; how they gather and fortify: how they are enwrapped one within another; and how they do fight and encounter one with another; and other the like particularities. Amongst the which this last is of special use in moral and civil matters; how, I say, to set affection against affection, and to master one by another; even as we used to hunt beast with beast, and fly bird with bird, which otherwise percase we could not so easily recover: upon which foundation is erected that excellent use of praemium and paena, whereby civil states consist: employing the predominant affections of fear and hope, for the suppressing and bridling the rest. For as in the government of states it is sometimes necessary to bridle one faction with another, so it is in the government within.",2003-10-23,8929,"•Rich Passage. Visit library and REVISIT.
•INTEREST: Hirschman cites as first articulation of the passion countervailing.","""But the poets and writers of histories are the best doctors of this knowledge; where we may find painted forth, with great life, how affections are kindled and incited; and how pacified and refrained; and how again contained from act and further degree; how they disclose themselves; how they work; how they vary; how they gather and fortify: how they are enwrapped one within another; and how they do fight and encounter one with another; and other the like particularities.""",War,2010-10-09 17:03:00 UTC,""
3539,"","Reading L. B. Campbell, Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes: Slaves of Passion (Cambridge: CUP, 1930), 67.",2004-05-27 00:00:00 UTC,"As soone as the Exterior sences, busied about the Objects which are proper for them, have gathered the formes of things which come from without, they carry them to the common sence, the which receives them, judgeth of them, and distinguisheth them; and then to preserve them in the absence of their objects, presents them to the Imagination, which having gathered them together, to the end she may represent them whensoever need shall require, she delivers them to the custody of the Memory; from whence retiring them when occasion requires, she propounds them unto the Appetite, under the appearance of things that are pleasing or troublesome, that is to say under the forme of Good and Evill; and at the same instant the same formes enlightned with the Light of the understanding, and purged from the sensible and singular conditions, which they retaine in the Imagination, and instead of that which they represented of particular things, representing them generall, they become capable to be imbraced by the Understanding; the which under the appearance of things which are profitable or hurtfull, that is to say, under the forme of Good or Evill, represents them unto the Will: the which being blind referres it selfe to that which the understanding proposeth unto it: And than as Queene of the powers of the soule she ordaines what they shall embrace, & what they shal fly as it pleseth her; whereunto the Sensitive Appetite yeelding a prompt obedience to execute her command, from the which it never straies, so long as it containes it selfe within the bounds and order prescrib'd by Nature, quickneth all the powers and passions over which shee commands, and sets to work those which are necessary to that action, and by their meanes commands the moving power, dispersed over all the members, to follow or fly, to approch or to recoyle, or to do any other motion which it requireth.",2012-01-18,9130,"•Rich and fascinating passage. INTEREST. REVISIT.
•I've included twice today: in Population and Government. I should return to this passage and further anatomize this anatomy.
• OK (1/18/2012). Was summarized: ""The [mind or soul] is a society ruled by the Understanding."" I pasted in the whole...","""As soone as the Exterior sences, busied about the Objects which are proper for them, have gathered the formes of things which come from without, they carry them to the common sence, the which receives them, judgeth of them, and distinguisheth them; and then to preserve them in the absence of their objects, presents them to the Imagination, which having gathered them together, to the end she may represent them whensoever need shall require, she delivers them to the custody of the Memory; from whence retiring them when occasion requires, she propounds them unto the Appetite, under the appearance of things that are pleasing or troublesome, that is to say under the forme of Good and Evill; and at the same instant the same formes enlightned with the Light of the understanding, and purged from the sensible and singular conditions, which they retaine in the Imagination, and instead of that which they represented of particular things, representing them generall, they become capable to be imbraced by the Understanding; the which under the appearance of things which are profitable or hurtfull, that is to say, under the forme of Good or Evill, represents them unto the Will: the which being blind referres it selfe to that which the understanding proposeth unto it: And than as Queene of the powers of the soule she ordaines what they shall embrace, & what they shal fly as it pleseth her; whereunto the Sensitive Appetite yeelding a prompt obedience to execute her command, from the which it never straies, so long as it containes it selfe within the bounds and order prescrib'd by Nature, quickneth all the powers and passions over which shee commands, and sets to work those which are necessary to that action, and by their meanes commands the moving power, dispersed over all the members, to follow or fly, to approch or to recoyle, or to do any other motion which it requireth.""",Inhabitants,2012-01-18 16:09:24 UTC,""
3568,Mind and Body,Past Masters; MacDonald's History of the Concept of Mind (289),2003-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,"Nature also teaches me, by these sensations or pain, hunger, thirst and so on, that I am not merely present in my body as a sailor is present in a ship, but that I am very closely joined and, as it were, intermingled with it, so that I and the body form a unit. If this were not so, I, who am nothing but a thinking thing, would not feel pain when the body was hurt, but would perceive the damage purely by the intellect, just as a sailor perceives by sight if anything in his ship is broken. Similarly, when the body needed food or drink, I should have an explicit understanding of the fact, instead of having confused sensations of hunger and thirst. For these sensations of hunger, thirst, pain and so on are nothing but confused modes of thinking which arise from the union and, as it were, intermingling of the mind with the body.
(Sixth Meditation, p. 56)",,9253,"•Note the two uses of ""as it were"".
•Intermingled = permixtio. Amelie Rorty renders as ""permixed.""","The ""I"" is not present in the body as a sailor is in a ship but is joined and intermingled with it",Inhabitants,2009-09-14 19:34:04 UTC,Sixth Meditation
6696,Mind's Eye,Reading,2010-04-14 18:35:16 UTC,"Let Plato next be summoned to the bar, that mocking wit, that swelling poet, that deluded theologian. Your philosophy, Plato, was but scraps of borrowed information polished and strung together. Your wisdom was a sham which you imposed by an affectation of ignorance. By your vague inductions you took men's minds off their guard and weakened their mental sinews. But you had at least the merit of supplying table-talk for men of culture and experience of affairs, even indeed of adding grace and charm to everyday conversation. When, however, you gave out the falsehood that truth is, as it were, the native inhabitant of the human mind and need not come in from, outside to take up its abode there; when you turned our minds away from observation, away from things, to which it is impossible we should ever be sufficiently respectful and attentive; when you taught us to turn our mind's eye inward and grovel before our own blind and confused idols under the name of contemplative philosophy; then truly you dealt us a mortal blow. Nor should it be forgotten that you were guilty of no less a sin when you deified your folly and presumed to shore up your contemptible thoughts with the prop of religion.
(p. 64)",,17783,"","""When, however, you gave out the falsehood that truth is, as it were, the native inhabitant of the human mind and need not come in from, outside to take up its abode there; when you turned our minds away from observation, away from things, to which it is impossible we should ever be sufficiently respectful and attentive; when you taught us to turn our mind's eye inward and grovel before our own blind and confused idols under the name of contemplative philosophy; then truly you dealt us a mortal blow.""","",2010-04-14 18:35:16 UTC,Chapter 2
3535,"",Reading in EEBO,2011-09-27 21:23:51 UTC,"The Nature therefore of heate preuailing, forceth the increment or growth, vp from the middle part, according to his impetuous strength and nimble agility, that is, it striueth and driueth toward that part of the world, toward which heate is naturally mooued, that is to say, vpwards. For the matter of mans body, it is soft, pliable and temperate, readie to follow the Workeman in euery thing, and to euery purpose; for man is the moystest and most sanguine of all Creatures. The finall cause of the frame of mans body is manifolde. First, man had an vpright frame & proportion, that he might behold and meditate on heauenly things. And for this cause, Anaxagoras being asked wherefore he was born, he made answere, to behold the heauens and the Starres. Secondly, that the functions and offices of the outward sences, which are all placed as it were a guard in pension, in the pallace of the head, and in the view and presence Chamber of Reason, which is their soueraigne, might in a more excellent manner be exercised and put in practise: for they were not ordained onely to auoide that which is hurtfull, and to followe and prosecute that which is profitable; but moreouer also for contemplation: and therefore they were to be placed in the highest contabulation or Story of the body. And by this meanes, speech, which is the messenger of the minde, is the better heard from on high; the Smell doth more commodiously receyue and entertaine the vapor that ascendeth: the Eyes being as it were spies or Centinels, day and night to keepe watch for vs, & being beside giuen vs, that we should take view of those infinite Distances and glorious bodies in them, which are ouer our heads, did therefore require an vpright frame and composition of the body.
(I.ii, p. 5)",,19215,"","""Secondly, that the functions and offices of the outward senses, which are all placed as it were a guard in pension, in the palace of the head, and in the view and presence Chamber of Reason, which is their sovereign, might in a more excellent manner be exercised and put in practice.""",Rooms,2011-09-27 21:23:51 UTC,"Book I, Chap. ii"
3535,"",Reading in EEBO,2011-09-28 01:24:04 UTC,"After this manner, Democritus of Abdera, that he might finde out the seate of anger and melancholy, cut in peeces the bodies of beasts, and when he was taxed of the Citizens for madnesse in so doing, he was by the censure and determination of Hippocrates, adiudged to be very wise and prudent. Go too then, is not he saide to know himselfe, who can tell how to temper and order the state and condition of his minde, howe to appease those ciuill tumults within himselfe, by the stormes and waues whereof he is pittifully tossed, and how to suppresse and appease those varieties of passions wherewith as it were with so manie furies he is vexed and tormented? But all this Anatomy doth verie plainly teach vs. For he that seeth and obserueth the whole body, which by the structure and putting together of sundry parts of diuers sorts and kinds, is (as it were) manifold & full of variety, to be made one by the continuation and ioyning of those parts; he that considereth the admirable simpathy of the parts, their mutuall consent and agreement, their common offices, or officiall administrations one for the helpe of another, how they make not any couetous reseruation to themselues, but do freely communicate each with other; such a man no doubt will so moderate and order the conditions and affections of his minde, as all things shal accord and ioyne in a mutuall agreement, and the inferiors shall obey the superiors, the passions obey the rule of right reason. He that shall diligently weigh and consider the vse of euery part, the fashion, scituation, and admirable workemanship of them all, as also, the Organs and Instruments of the outward sences, he shall easily perceiue how and after what manner he is to make vse of euery part; then which thing, what can be more excellent, what more profitable?
(I.v, pp. 12-13)
",,19221,"","""Go too then, is not he said to know himself, who can tell how to temper and order the state and condition of his mind, how to appease those civil tumults within himself, by the storms and waves whereof he is pitifully tossed, and how to suppress and appease those varieties of passions wherewith as it were with so many furies he is vexed and tormented?""","",2011-09-28 01:24:04 UTC,"Book I, Chap. v"
3535,"",Reading in EEBO,2011-09-28 01:50:53 UTC,"Two eares, and those wide open, hath Nature ordained for thee; to teach thee that thou must heare, and by hearing, learne twice as much as thou must speake. Nature hath giuen thee but one tongue, tied with ten Muscles, and reyned with a very strong ligament, besides, as it were with a bridle, shut vp and enclosed within the mouth and teeth, as it were within a grate or Lattice, that the minde might first discerne and iudge of a thing before it vtter it, and that our words might first passe by the file, before they passe by the tongue. If you looke into the seats and residence of the faculties of the minde, you shall finde the rational faculty in the highest place, namely in the brain, compassed in on euery side with a scull; the faculty of anger, in the Heart; the faculty of lust or desire in the Liuer: & therefore we may gather these lower and inferiour faculties, must bee seruiceable and obedient to the higher, as to the Queene and Prince of them all. And if both Princes and Peasants would weigh and consider the mutuall offices betweene the principall and the ignoble parts, Princes might vnderstand how to rule, and Peasants how to obey. Princes may learne of the braine how to make Lawes, to gouerne their people; of the heart, how to preserue the life, health, and safety of their Citizens; of the Liuer, they may learn bounty and liberality. For the braine sitting in the highest place, as it were in a Tribunall, distributeth to euery Organ or Instrument of the sences, offices of dignity: the Heart like a King maintaineth and cherrisheth with his liuely and quickning heate, the life of all the partes: the Liuer the fountaine and well-spring of most beneficall humidity or iuice, nourisheth and feedeth the whole family of the bodie, and that at her owne proper costs and charges, like most a bountifull Prince. As for the meaner sort of people, they may easilie vnderstand by the ministering and seruile organs, what bee the limits of seruice and subiection. For the parts that are in the lower bellie do all serue the Liuer; the Stomacke dooth concoct the meate, the Guts distribute and diuide it, the veines of the Mesentarie prepare it; the bladder of Gall, the Milt and the Reines, do purge and clense the princely Pallace, & thrust as it were out of the Kitchin, downe the sinke, all the filth and garbage. The parts that are included within the Chest, do serue the Heart; those that are in the head, do attend the Braine, and so each to others, doe affoord their mutuall seruices. And if any one of them do at any time faile of their duty, presently the whole Houshold gouernment goes to ruine and decay.
(I.v, p. 13)",,19225,"","""The parts that are included within the Chest, do serve the Heart; those that are in the head, do attend the Brain, and so each to others, do afford their mutual services. And if any one of them do at any time fail of their duty, presently the whole Household government goes to ruine and decay.""","",2011-09-28 01:50:53 UTC,"Book I, Chap. v"
3535,"",Reading in EEBO,2011-09-28 02:25:31 UTC,"Some againe intercede for the Peripateticks; and say, that the principal faculties motiue and sensatiue are in the heart, as in their originall and fountaine. That the rootes of the nerues are in the heart, but because it is too narrow to yeelde out of it selfe all their propagations, they think the braine was framed as a second principle, wherin the animall functions might, not obscurely as in the heart, but euidently manifest and exhibite themselues. And this power or faculty when the braine hath once receiued it from the heart, standeth in no neede of continuall and immediate assistance therefrom, but onely of a supply after some time: Euen as the Commander of an Army, who hauing receiued his authority and his company from the Prince, standeth in no farther neede of the Princes protection, vnlesse it be now and then vpon especiall seruices. They conclude therefore that the Braine and the Liuer are truely called principall parts; but this principality is but delegatory from the heart, no otherwayes then the Lieutenants of Princes, by them chosen for such and such imployments, doe receiue from them an order and power of dispensation and disposition, whereby they are authorized, and so taken, as if they were immediate commaunders themselues. Some others vse another distinction, and say that materially the nerues proceede from the Braine and the veines from the Liuer; but the first and the formall principle they say is in the heart.
(I,Qii p. 42)
",,19232,"","""And this power or faculty when the braine hath once receiued it from the heart, standeth in no neede of continuall and immediate assistance therefrom, but onely of a supply after some time: Euen as the Commander of an Army, who hauing receiued his authority and his company from the Prince, standeth in no farther neede of the Princes protection, vnlesse it be now and then vpon especiall seruices.""",Inhabitants,2011-09-28 02:25:31 UTC,"Book I, Quest.2"
3535,"",Reading in EEBO,2011-09-28 02:28:33 UTC,"Some againe intercede for the Peripateticks; and say, that the principal faculties motiue and sensatiue are in the heart, as in their originall and fountaine. That the rootes of the nerues are in the heart, but because it is too narrow to yeelde out of it selfe all their propagations, they think the braine was framed as a second principle, wherin the animall functions might, not obscurely as in the heart, but euidently manifest and exhibite themselues. And this power or faculty when the braine hath once receiued it from the heart, standeth in no neede of continuall and immediate assistance therefrom, but onely of a supply after some time: Euen as the Commander of an Army, who hauing receiued his authority and his company from the Prince, standeth in no farther neede of the Princes protection, vnlesse it be now and then vpon especiall seruices. They conclude therefore that the Braine and the Liuer are truely called principall parts; but this principality is but delegatory from the heart, no otherwayes then the Lieutenants of Princes, by them chosen for such and such imployments, doe receiue from them an order and power of dispensation and disposition, whereby they are authorized, and so taken, as if they were immediate commaunders themselues. Some others vse another distinction, and say that materially the nerues proceede from the Braine and the veines from the Liuer; but the first and the formall principle they say is in the heart.
(I,Qii p. 42)",,19233,Left off here with my reading... READ MORE CROOKE.,"""They conclude therefore that the Brain and the Liver are truly called principal parts; but this principality is but delegatory from the heart, no otherways then the Lieutenants of Princes, by them chosen for such and such employments, doe receive from them an order and power of dispensation and disposition, whereby they are authorized, and so taken, as if they were immediate commanders themselves.""","",2011-09-28 02:28:33 UTC,"Book I, Quest.2"
7390,"",Reading,2013-05-16 16:29:51 UTC,"[...] For if the soule by reason of sympathizing with the body is either made an [Greek] or a [Greek] either a nimble swift-footed Achilles, or a limping slow Odysseus, as hereafter we intend to declare, good reason the body (as the edifice or handmaid of the soule) should be knowne as a part of Teipsum for the good of the soule. Therefore Iulian the Apostata who had flood of inuentiĆ, although that whole flood could not wash or rinch away that one spot of his atheisme, he (though not knowing him a right) could say the body was the chariot of the soule, which while it was well manag'd by discretion the cunning coachman, the drawing steeds, that is our head-strong and vntamed appetites, being checkt in by the golden bit of temperance, so long the soule should not bee tost in craggy waies by vnequall and tottring motion, much lesse be in danger to bee hurled downe the steepy hils of perditiĆ. [...]
(Chapter I)",,20180,"","""Therefore Iulian the Apostata who had flood of inuention, although that whole flood could not wash or rinch away that one spot of his atheisme, he (though not knowing him a right) could say the body was the chariot of the soule, which while it was well manag'd by discretion the cunning coachman, the drawing steeds, that is our head-strong and vntamed appetites, being checkt in by the golden bit of temperance, so long the soule should not bee tost in craggy waies by vnequall and tottring motion, much lesse be in danger to bee hurled downe the steepy hils of perdition.""",Animals,2013-05-16 16:29:51 UTC,Chapter I