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1 I, 1 | The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions 2 I, 14| awakes more terror than pity. There are also such rhetorically 3 II, 1 | pleasure. Such are anger, pity, fear and the like, with 4 II, 4 | happen to make the angry man pity those who offend him, but 5 II, 4 | circumstances wishes to pity a man whom he has once hated: 6 II, 5 | others cause us to feel pity.~The above are, roughly, 7 II, 8 | Unkindness. Let us now consider Pity, asking ourselves what things 8 II, 8 | ourselves what things excite pity, and for what persons, and 9 II, 8 | what states of our mind pity is felt. Pity may be defined 10 II, 8 | of our mind pity is felt. Pity may be defined as a feeling 11 II, 8 | us soon. In order to feel pity, we must obviously be capable 12 II, 8 | panic-stricken people do not feel pity, because they are taken 13 II, 8 | themselves); only those feel pity who are between these two 14 II, 8 | extremes. In order to feel pity we must also believe in 15 II, 8 | And, generally, we feel pity whenever we are in the condition 16 II, 8 | conditions under which we feel pity. What we pity is stated 17 II, 8 | which we feel pity. What we pity is stated clearly in the 18 II, 8 | and painful things excite pity if they tend to destroy 19 II, 8 | then, on which we feel pity are these or like these. 20 II, 8 | like these. The people we pity are: those whom we know, 21 II, 8 | pitiful; it tends to cast out pity, and often helps to produce 22 II, 8 | produce the opposite of pity. Again, we feel pity when 23 II, 8 | of pity. Again, we feel pity when the danger is near 24 II, 8 | near ourselves. Also we pity those who are like us in 25 II, 8 | for ourselves excites our pity when it happens to others. 26 II, 8 | us that they excite our pity (we cannot remember what 27 II, 8 | and therefore feel little pity, if any, for such things): 28 II, 8 | especially successful in exciting pity: they thus put the disasters 29 II, 8 | whenever they are so, our pity is especially excited, because 30 II, 9 | Most directly opposed to pity is the feeling called Indignation. 31 II, 9 | both to feel sympathy and pity for unmerited distress, 32 II, 9 | is similarly opposed to pity, on the ground that envy 33 II, 9 | fortune. The feelings of pity and indignation will obviously 34 II, 9 | feelings tend to prevent pity (though they differ among 35 II, 9 | neutralizing an appeal to pity.~We will first consider 36 II, 9 | any more than we shall pity him for the contrary reason. 37 II, 9 | shows that those who claim pity on certain definite grounds 38 II, 9 | do not deserve to secure pity but do deserve not to secure 39 II, 9 | impossible for the judges to feel pity.~ 40 II, 10| and those for whom our pity, or the award of something 41 II, 10| obvious that they will win no pity from us.~ 42 II, 12| harm. They are ready to pity others, because they think 43 II, 13| insult them. Old men may feel pity, as well as young men, but 44 II, 13| is a thought that excites pity. Hence they are querulous, 45 II, 23| in the lines:~Thou hast pity for thy sire, who has lost 46 III, 1 | Thrasymachus in his "Appeals to Pity". Dramatic ability is a 47 III, 16| except where they excite pity or indignation by being 48 III, 19| emotions. These emotions are pity, indignation, anger, hatred,