A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART III soning, therefore, never influences any of our actions, but only as it directs our judgment con- cerning causes ...

BOOK II PART III from the prospect of pain or pleasure that the aversion or propensity arises towards any ob- ject: And these em ...

BOOK II PART III any passion or emotion. This consequence is necessary. It is impossible reason coued have the latter effect of ...

BOOK II PART III sophically when we talk of the combat of pas- sion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of ...

BOOK II PART III disagreement of ideas, considered as copies, with those objects, which they represent. What may at first occur ...

BOOK II PART III judgment of causes and effects. Where a pas- sion is neither founded on false suppositions, nor chuses means in ...

BOOK II PART III In short, a passion must be accompanyed with some false judgment in order to its being un- reasonable; and even ...

BOOK II PART III the performance of certain actions as means of obtaining any desired good; but as my willing of these actions i ...

BOOK II PART III that every action of the mind, which operates with the same calmness and tranquillity, is con- founded with rea ...

BOOK II PART III shood. Their nature and principles have been supposed the same, because their sensations are not evidently diff ...

BOOK II PART III ing the other to have no influence. Men of- ten act knowingly against their interest: For which reason the view ...

BOOK II PART III concerning the actions and resolutions of men, where there is any contrariety of motives and passions. ...

BOOK II PART III SECTIONIV. OF THECAUSES OF THE VIOLENTPASSIONS There is not-in philosophy a subject of more nice speculation th ...

BOOK II PART III twixt a violent and a strong one. But notwith- standing this, it is certain, that when we would govern a man, a ...

BOOK II PART III only a calm one. As this subject belongs very properly to the present question concerning the will, we shall he ...

BOOK II PART III one passion produce another. When two pas- sions are already produced by their separate causes, and are both pr ...

BOOK II PART III ditional force to the prevailing passion. It is a common artifice of politicians, when they would affect any pe ...

BOOK II PART III lation of ideas, and the conversion of the infe- rior emotion into the predominant. Hence it is that in martial ...

BOOK II PART III monly causes a new emotion in the spirits, and produces more disorder, than the concurrence of any two affectio ...

BOOK II PART III The efforts, which the mind makes to sur- mount the obstacle, excite the spirits and in- liven the passion. Unc ...