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" The imagination, by means of which alone I can anticipate future objects, or be interested in them, must carry me out of myself into the feelings of others by one and the same process by which I am thrown forward as it were into my future being, and interested... "
An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argument in Favour of ... - Page 3
by William Hazlitt - 1805 - 263 pages
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 3, Part 2

1807 - 588 pages
...welfare, because I have no distinct faculty giving me a direct present interest in my future sen-ations, and none at all in those of others. The imagination,...feelings of others by one and the same process by which f am thrown forward as it were into my future being and interested in it. I could not love myself if...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The plain speaker. Essay on the ...

William Hazlitt - English essays - 1903 - 536 pages
...to those impressions, which determine my voluntary actions. I have not the same sort of exclusive, or mechanical self-interest in my future being or...feelings of others by one and the same process by '.-j» vsMewxi i lacomna, z -tar :ae io«c at* v " >• ti//' '/ srt«2«rt sa i »diit te » "••*...
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Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature

Larry Arnhart - Science - 1998 - 356 pages
...observed, this confirms William Hazlitt's insight that it is the same sympathetic imagination that "must carry me out of myself into the feelings of others ... by which I am thrown forward as it were into my future being and interested in it. I could not love myself,...
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Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity

Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 288 pages
...somewhat puzzling manoeuvre, Hazlitt argues that the future self is structurally similar to the selves of others: 'The imagination, by means of which alone...am thrown forward as it were into my future being' ( Works 1.1-2). What Hazlitt adds to the discussion of Partridge, de-Shalit and other twentieth-century...
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Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History

Deborah Elise White - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 252 pages
...imaginary. It depends on an act of imagination articulated across the temporal gulf between past and future: "The imagination, by means of which alone I can anticipate...am thrown forward as it were into my future being" (1:i- 2).34 Imagination — and therefore a certain relation to the "other" — is constitutive of...
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Fremde Figuren: Alterisierungen in Kunst, Wissenschaft und Anthropologie um 1800

Alexandra Böhm - Art and science - 2008 - 374 pages
...potentiellen Zustandes des Ichs in der Zukunft abstrahiere der Einzelne von seiner aktuellen Existenz: The Imagination, by means of which alone I can anticipate...and the same process by which I am thrown forward äs it were into my future being, and interested in it. I could not love myself, if I were not capable...
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