Assertion: sorrow | /r/HasProperty | contrary
Facets:
value: to all pleasure
type: OTHER
value: specifically
type: MANNER
value: to pleasure
type: PURPOSE
value: to the pleasure of contemplation
type: PURPOSE
value: to every pleasure
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to one another
type: OTHER
value: in a contrary object
type: OTHER
value: of itself
type: OTHER
value: to joy
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Accordingly, in referring to the objects of the other senses, we do not speak of pain in so far as it is contrary to natural pleasure: but rather of sorrow, which is contrary to joy.
text: Whether sorrow or pain is contrary to pleasure?
text: Therefore pleasure and sorrow are contrary to one another.
text: Whether all sorrow is contrary to all pleasure?
text: It would seem that all sorrow is contrary to all pleasure.
text: Therefore every sorrow is contrary to every pleasure.
text: Consequently sorrow and pleasure in respect of the same object, are specifically contrary to one another: whereas sorrow and pleasure in respect of objects that are not contrary but disparate, are not specifically contrary to one another, but are also disparate; for instance, sorrow at the death of a friend, and pleasure in contemplation.
text: If, however, those diverse objects be contrary to one another, then pleasure and sorrow are not only specifically contrary, but they also have a certain mutual fittingness and affinity: for instance to rejoice in good and to sorrow for evil.
text: Or we may say that, although not every sorrow is specifically contrary to every pleasure, yet they are contrary to one another in regard to their effects: since one has the effect of strengthening the animal nature, while the other results in a kind of discomfort.
text: Therefore sorrow can be contrary to the pleasure of contemplation.
text: Consequently if the pleasure of contemplation be taken in this way, nothing hinders some sorrow being contrary to the pleasure of contemplation.
text: ], "no sorrow is contrary to that pleasure which is about contemplation": and the Philosopher says the same (Topic.
text: The reason is because sorrow is of itself contrary to pleasure in a contrary object: thus pleasure in heat is contrary to sorrow caused by cold.
text: Accordingly it is evident that no sorrow is contrary to pleasure taken in the very act of contemplation; nor is any sorrow connected with it save accidentally.