This article proposes a definition of Johnson’s popular term, the ‘good hater’, in order to explore his ideas about malicious conversation and criticism. Good hating was a conversational and critical ideal for Johnson, in contrast to ‘bad hating’ – hatred motivated by malice or malignity – which threatened civil discourse. Johnson’s own malice and ‘roughness’ are a vexed question in biographies by James Boswell, John Hawkins and Hester Lynch Piozzi. In spite of the efforts of Boswell, who has largely influenced the popular image of Johnson, I argue that Johnson fails to meet his own standards of good hating.

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塞缪尔·约翰逊（Samuel Johnson）和Good Hating

本文提出了约翰逊流行术语“好仇恨”的定义，以探讨他关于恶意对话和批评的想法。良好的仇恨是约翰逊的对话和批判性理想，而“恶意的仇恨”（恶意或恶性动机导致仇恨）则威胁到民间话语。詹姆士·波斯威尔，约翰·霍金斯和海丝特·林奇·皮兹齐在传记中都对约翰逊自己的恶意和“粗野”提出了质疑。尽管博斯韦尔（Boswell）做出了很大的努力，但他在很大程度上影响了约翰逊（Johnson）的知名度，但我认为约翰逊（Johnson）未能达到自己的好仇恨标准。