work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
4136,Soliloquy,Reading,2003-11-06 00:00:00 UTC,"'Are we to go therefore to the stage for edification? Must we learn our catechism from the poets and, like the players, speak aloud what we debate at any time with ourselves alone?' Not absolutely so, perhaps, thought where the harm would be of spending some discourse and bestowing a little breath and clear voice purely upon ourselves, I cannot see. We might peradventure be less noisy and more profitable in company if at convenient times we discharged some of our articulate sound and spoke to ourselves vivâ voce when alone. For company is an extreme provocative to fancy and, like a hotbed in gardening, is apt to make our imaginations sprout too fast. But, by this anticipating remedy of soliloquy, we may effectually provide against the inconvenience.
(p. 72)",,10613,"•In the next paragraph Shaftesbury calls this superabundance of pent up speech ""froth""","""For company is an extreme provocative to fancy and, like a hotbed in gardening, is apt to make our imaginations sprout too fast.""","",2012-09-26 18:01:26 UTC,"Part I, Section 1"
4136,Personal Identity,Reading,2003-11-06 00:00:00 UTC,"Thus it may appear how far a lover by his own natural strength may reach the chief principle of philosophy and understand our doctrine of two persons in one individual self. Not that our courtier, we suppose, was able of himself to form this distinction justly and according to art. For could he have effected this, he would have been able to cure himself without the assistance of his prince. However, he was wise enough to see in the issue that his independency and freedom were mere glosses and resolution, a nose of wax. For let will be ever so free, humour and fancy, we see, govern it. And these, as free as we suppose them, are often changed we know not how, without asking our consent or giving us any account. If opinion be that which governs and makes the change, it is itself as liable to be governed and varied in its turn. And by what I can observe of the world, fancy and opinion stand pretty much upon the same bottom. So that, if there be no certain inspector or auditor established within us to take account of these opinions and fancies in due form and minutely to animadvert upon their several growths and habits, we are as little like to continue a day in the same will as a tree, during the summer, in the same shape, without the gardener's assistance and the vigorous application of the shears and pruning knife.
(p. 83)",2012-04-24,10616,•Shaftesbury's take on personal identity. A matter of animadversion and pruning. ,"""So that, if there be no certain inspector or auditor established within us to take account of these opinions and fancies in due form and minutely to animadvert upon their several growths and habits, we are as little like to continue a day in the same will as a tree, during the summer, in the same shape, without the gardener's assistance and the vigorous application of the shears and pruning knife.""",Garden,2012-09-26 18:04:36 UTC,"Part I, Section 2"
7520,"",Reading; text from C-H Lion,2013-07-09 16:56:40 UTC,"Other Reasons, my Lord, there are, why this plain home-spun Philosophy, of looking into our-selves, may do us wond'rous Service, in rectifying our Errors in Religion. For there is a sort of Enthusiasm of second hand. And when Men find no original Commotions in themselves, no prepossessing Pannick that bewitches 'em, they are apt still, by the Testimony of others, to be impos'd on, and led credulously into the Belief of many false Miracles. And this Habit may make 'em variable, and of a very inconstant Faith, easy to be carry'd away with every Wind of Doctrine, and addicted to every upstart Sect or Superstition. But the knowledg of our Passions in their very Seeds, the measuring well the Growth and Progress of Enthusiasm, and the judging rightly of its natural Force, and what command it has over our very Senses, may teach us to oppose more successfully those Delusions which come arm'd with the specious Pretext of moral Certainty, and Matter of Fact.
(pp. 43-4; pp. 22-3 in Klein)",,21579,"","""But the knowledg of our Passions in their very Seeds, the measuring well the Growth and Progress of Enthusiasm, and the judging rightly of its natural Force, and what command it has over our very Senses, may teach us to oppose more successfully those Delusions which come arm'd with the specious Pretext of moral Certainty, and Matter of Fact.""","",2013-07-09 16:56:40 UTC,Section 6