A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; And, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Volume 2

David Hume

Longmans, Green, 1882

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Their object is pleasure but pleasure given not by nature but	5

Conformity to law not the moral good but a means to	20

2225	26

Hume excludes every object of desire but pleasure	32

4	62

Sense of morality no motive	66

SECT	75

OF LOVE AND HATRED	121

Of the Effects of Custom	201

Of the Influence of the Imagination on the Passions	202

Of Contiguity and Distance in Space and Time	205

The same Subject continud	209

Of the Direct Passions	214

Of Curiosity or the Love of Truth	223

BOOK III	233

In what sense that it is every ones object?	238

5	136

CONTENTS OF SECT PAGE III Difficulties Solvd	137

Of the Love of Relations	140

Of our Esteem for the Rich and Powerful	145

Of Benevolence and Anger	152

Of Compassion	155

Of Malice and Envy	158

Of the Mixture of Benevolence and Anger with Compassion and Malice	165

Of Respect and Contempt	173

Of the Amorous Passion or Love betwixt the Sexes	176

Of the Love and Hatred of Animals	179

PART III	181

6	185

The same Subject continud	188

Of the Influencing Motives of the Will	193

In what sense of happiness is it true that it is really just as	195

Of the Causes of the Violent Passions	198

Moral distinctions derivd from a moral sense	246

OF JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE	252

Of the origin of justice and property	258

Of the Rules which determine Property	273

Of the transference of property by consent	283

Some farther reflections concerning justice and injustice	293

Another device is to suggest a physiological account of pride	294

Of the origin of government	300

SECT	330

Of greatness of mind	349

Of goodness and benevolence	358

Some farther reflections concerning the natural virtues	368

PART	378

What is meant by present and future pleasure?	401

VI	454

14	472

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Title	A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; And, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Volume 2 A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; And, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Thomas Hodge Grose Volumes 1-2 of Works, David Hume
Author	David Hume
Editors	Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hodge Grose
Publisher	Longmans, Green, 1882
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	17 Oct 2007

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