A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK III PART I must exist; and consequently is independent of the decisions of our reason, and is their ob- ject more properly ...

BOOK III PART I if the essence of morality consisted in these re- lations. Their want of a sufficient degree of rea- son may hin ...

BOOK III PART I ject of reason. But can there be any difficulty in proving, that vice and virtue are not matters of fact, whose ...

BOOK III PART I constitution of your nature you have a feeling or sentiment of blame from the contemplation of it. Vice and virt ...

BOOK III PART I of some importance. In every system of moral- ity, which I have hitherto met with, I have al- ways remarked, tha ...

BOOK III PART I use this precaution, I shall presume to recom- mend it to the readers; and am persuaded, that this small attenti ...

BOOK III PART I SECTIONII. MORALDISTINCTIONS DERIVED FROM AMORALSENSE Thus the course of the argument leads us to conclude, that ...

BOOK III PART I to each other. The next question is, Of what nature are these impressions, and after what manner do they operate ...

BOOK III PART I arises from vice. Now since the distinguishing impressions, by which moral good or evil is known, are nothing bu ...

BOOK III PART I our praise or admiration. We go no farther; nor do we enquire into the cause of the satisfaction. We do not infe ...

BOOK III PART I may, in like manner, be objected to the present system, that if virtue and vice be determined by pleasure and pa ...

BOOK III PART I shall we say upon that account, that the wine is harmonious, or the music of a good flavour? In like manner an i ...

BOOK III PART I run into one another. It seldom happens, that we do not think an enemy vicious, and can dis- tinguish betwixt hi ...

BOOK III PART I among our pains and pleasures. Pride and hu- mility, love and hatred are excited, when there is any thing presen ...

BOOK III PART I good and evil,from what principles it derived, and whence does it arise in the human mind?To this I reply, first ...

BOOK III PART I which all our notions of morals are founded. But in the second place, should it be asked, Whether we ought to se ...

BOOK III PART I is the common one, there may often arise dis- putes concerning what is natural or unnatu- ral; and one may in ge ...

BOOK III PART I founding the human mind by disease or mad- ness, it is impossible to extirpate and destroy them. But nature may ...

BOOK III PART I tificial, and that of others natural. The discus- sion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon ...

BOOK III PART I virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. As to the third sense of the word, ...