 | Henry Ten Eyck Perry - 1925 - 172 oldal
...famously stated by Hobbes in the Discourse on Human Nature: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." The second, that we laugh nervously from disappointment,... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1926 - 510 oldal
...'Theory and Practice of Dramatic Comedy,' therein finding the source of laughter to lie both in Hobbes' ' sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves' and in Kant's 'affection arising from the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing.'... | |
 | Edgar Frederick Carritt - 1928 - 360 oldal
...phrase d/SXo/Sijs rots «XXo<s. 20 laugh must be in the nature of immediate pleasure and success : " A sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." 1 Yet nobody need find it funny to get food when... | |
 | Robert Metcalf Smith - 1928 - 780 oldal
...first statement, writes in the Discourse on Human Nature: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" ; and Kant, in the Critique of Judgment, repeats... | |
 | 1910 - 522 oldal
...a conception of superiority and degradation. He says, " the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the inferiority of others, or with our own formerly." He then makes the chief element in the emotion... | |
 | 1977 - 704 oldal
...Philosophy of the Human Mind' (Edinburgh, 1824) no. 58, discusses Hobbes' famous definition of laughter as, 'a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' Cf. Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) 'Thoughts on... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 220 oldal
...same idea a bit further. As he put it in The Leviathan, "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." Hobbes was primarily a political philosopher and... | |
 | René de Costa - 2000 - 164 oldal
...probably subscribe to Thomas Hobbes's "sudden glory" theory of humor: "Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others" (Leviathan [1651]). Conversely, those who don't get the jokes will probably... | |
 | J.E. Roeckelein - 2006 - 692 oldal
...basically a "superiority/social-comparison" theory - states that this passion is nothing else but the "sudden glory" arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, or by comparing ourselves with the infirmity of others, or by comparing our present with our past infirmities.... | |
 | Gerald A. Arbuckle - 2008 - 212 oldal
...Hobbes (1588-1679) in Leviathan (first published in 1651): "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others."7 Henri Bergson also believed that in humor "we always find an avowed intention... | |
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I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly... 
