A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK III PART II passions and inclinations, we should perform but few actions for the advantage of others, from distinterested v ...

BOOK III PART II ted to become. Though possession be stable, men may often reap but small advantage from it, while they are poss ...

BOOK III PART II or barrels of wine. Besides, the commerce of mankind is not confined to the barter of com- modities, but may ex ...

BOOK III PART II All this is the effect of the natural and inher- ent principles and passions of human nature; and as these pass ...

BOOK III PART II their headlong and impetuous motion. Hence I learn to do a service to another, without bear- ing him any real k ...

BOOK III PART II of advantage; and they may make me a re- turn in the same manner, without any view but that of recompensing my ...

BOOK III PART II motives, and would not create any new mo- tive or obligation. They are the conventions of men, which create a n ...

BOOK III PART II needs but a very little practice of the world, to make us perceive all these consequences and advantages. The s ...

BOOK III PART II Afterwards a sentiment of morals concurs with interest, and becomes a new obligation upon mankind. This sentime ...

BOOK III PART II mind, and consequently that promises impose no natural obligation. To confirm this, we may subjoin some other r ...

BOOK III PART II make use of any expression, of which he knows not the meaning, and which he uses without any intention of bindi ...

BOOK III PART II if the obligation of promises be merely a hu- man invention for the convenience of society; but will never be e ...

BOOK III PART II a human nature. But though these mysteries be so far alike, it is very remarkable, that they differ widely in o ...

BOOK III PART II considered as a requisite circumstance, its ab- sence must equally prevent the effect, whether avowed or concea ...

BOOK III PART II We may draw the same conclusion, con- cerning the origin of promises, from the force, which is supposed to inva ...

BOOK III PART II convenience. ...

BOOK III PART II SECTIONVI. SOMEFARTHERREFLECTIONS CONSERNINGJUSTICE ANDINJUSTICE We have now run over the three fundamen- tal l ...

BOOK III PART II nothing is more obvious, than the convention for the observance of these rules. Nature has, therefore, trusted ...

BOOK III PART II and perpetual will of giving every one his due. In this definition it is supposed, that there are such things a ...

BOOK III PART II tinue invariably the same, while the property changes. Property, therefore, must consist in some relation of th ...