vii] ),
consequently it may easily happen also, that Peter should hate Paul in
return, and that each should endeavour to do the other an injury,
(III:[xxxix] ), that is ([xxx] ), that they should be contrary one to
another. (34:2) But the emotion of pain is always a passion or
passive state (III:[lix] ); hence men, in so far as they are assailed
by emotions which are passions, can be contrary one to another. Q.E.D.
Note.- (34:3) I said that Paul may hate Peter, because he conceives that
Peter possesses something which he (Paul) also loves; from this it seems,
at first sight, to follow, that these two men, through both loving the
same thing, and, consequently, through agreement of their respective
natures, stand in one another's way; if this were so, II:[xxx] and
II:[xxxi] would be untrue. (4) But if we give the matter our unbiased
attention, we shall see that the discrepancy vanishes. (5) For the two
men are not in one another's way in virtue of the agreement of their
natures, that is, through both loving the same thing, but in virtue of
one differing from the other. (6) For, in so far as each loves the same
thing, the love of each is fostered thereby (III:[xxxi] ), that is
(III:[De.vi] ) the pleasure of each is fostered thereby. (7) Wherefore
it is far from being the case, that they are at variance through both
loving the same thing, and through the agreement in their natures.
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