Philosophical Works, v. 2 (of 4)
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- English
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- Complete work
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- ~170,000 words · 806 passages
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- APADavid Hume. (n.d.). Philosophical Works, v. 2 (of 4). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/david-hume/philosophical-works-v-2-of-4
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What it is about
The second of the four volumes of Hume's philosophical works in the Green and Grose edition: the continuation of the 'Treatise of Human Nature'.
Context and history
The Green and Grose edition of 1874-75, in four volumes, of which the catalogue holds the first and second. These two contain the 'Treatise of Human Nature', which Hume published at twenty-eight and which, in his own words, 'fell dead-born from the press'. Everything is here: the thesis that all ideas come from impressions; the analysis of causation — we observe no necessary connection, only a constant conjunction which habit teaches us to expect; the attack on the notion of the self as a substance; and the distinction between is and ought, which has organised two centuries of moral argument. Volumes III and IV contain the essays and the 'Enquiries', the later and more readable restatement of the same, and are not in the catalogue.
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Of the Influence of these Relations on Pride and Humility Limitations of this System Of Vice and Virtue Of Beauty and Deformity Of external Advantages and Disadvantages Of Property and Riches Of the Love of Fame Of Pride and Humility of Animals PART II. OF LOVE AND HATRED. Of the Objects and Causes of Love and Hatred Experiments to confirm this System Difficulties solved Of the Love of Relations Of our Esteem for the Rich and Powerful Of Benevolence and Anger Of Compassion Of Malice and Envy Of the mixture of Benevolence and Anger with Compassion and Malice Of Respect and Contempt Of the Amorous Passion, or Love betwixt the Sexes Of Love and Hatred of Animals PART III. OF THE WILL AND DIRECT PASSIONS. Of Liberty and Necessity The Same subject continued Of the Influencing Motives of the Will Of the Causes of the Violent Passions Of the Effects of Custom Of the Influence of the Imagination on the Passions Of Contiguity and Distance in Space and Time The same Subject continued Of the Direct Passions Of Curiosity, or the Love of Truth BOOK III.--OF MORALS. PART I. OF VIRTUE AND VICE IN GENERAL. Moral Distinctions not derived from Reason Moral Distinctions der