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Often appears with: variation of judgment by emotions · the passions and the emotions · self-complacency · repentance · justice as a virtue
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · detachment (1)
“Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.” Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethics — Part 3 · insight
Spinoza claims different people and the same person at different times can be affected differently by the same object, links emotion-driven judgments to repentance and self-complacency, and develops how wonder, consternation, veneration, and contempt work.
>>>>>Proof--This proposition is proved in the same way as III. xv., which see, together with the note to III. xviii. *****Note--Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens. Now, in so far as such omens are the cause of hope or fear, they are (by the definitions of hope and fear given in III. xviii. note) the causes also of pleasure and pain; consequently we, to this extent…