A Treatise of Human Nature
BOOK III PART I and contemplation. This decision is very com- modious; because it reduces us to this simple question, Why any ac ...
PART II OFJUSTICE ANDINJUSTICE SECTIONI. JUSTICE,WHETHER ANATURAL ORARTIFICIALVIRTUE? I have already hinted, that our sense of e ...
BOOK III PART II It is evident, that when we praise any ac- tions, we regard only the motives that pro- duced them, and consider ...
BOOK III PART II ful over his breast, though checked in its oper- ation by some circumstances unknown to us, we retract our blam ...
BOOK III PART II must be derived from some virtuous motive: And consequently the virtuous motive must be different from the rega ...
BOOK III PART II we give to our offspring. In this case, therefore, all men suppose a motive to the action distinct from a sense ...
BOOK III PART II its morality. But may not the sense of morality or duty produce an action, without any other motive? I answer, ...
BOOK III PART II on the signs, and neglect, in some measure, the thing signifyed. But though, on some occa- sions, a person may ...
BOOK III PART II of duty and obligation. And this answer, no doubt, is just and satisfactory to man in his civ- ilized state, an ...
BOOK III PART II We can never have a regard to the virtue of an action, unless the action be antecedently virtu- ous. No action ...
BOOK III PART II source of all injustice and violence; nor can a man ever correct those vices, without correct- ing and restrain ...
BOOK III PART II stored in the same manner (as when the lender would conceal his riches) in that case the ex- ample ceases, and ...
BOOK III PART II mankind, merely as such, independent of per- sonal qualities, of services, or of relation to our- seit It is tr ...
BOOK III PART II ity would cause a stronger affection than the same degree of a bad quality would cause ha- tred; contrary to wh ...
BOOK III PART II him in the moon. But this proceeds only from the relation to ourselves; which in these cases gathers force by b ...
BOOK III PART II original motive to justice would fail; and con- sequently the justice itself, and along with it all property, t ...
BOOK III PART II their possessions is, that they consider them as their property, and as secured to them invio- lably by the law ...
BOOK III PART II ident sophistry and reasoning in a circle. Un- less, therefore, we will allow, that nature has es- tablished a ...
BOOK III PART II mon to the species, we pronounce them hand- some and beautiful. In like manner we al- ways consider the natural ...
BOOK III PART II no principle of the human mind is more natu- ral than a sense of virtue; so no virtue is more natural than just ...
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