A Treatise of Human Nature
BOOK III PART II ties are connected with our natural, that the for- mer are invented chiefly for the sake of the lat- ter; and t ...
BOOK III PART II trate is requisite to preserve order and concord in society. To perform promises is requisite to beget mutual t ...
BOOK III PART II tain a greater suspicion, that men may indulge their humour, or passion, in acting contrary to them. Here, ther ...
BOOK III PART II both is of the very same kind: It is general, avowed, and prevails in all times and places. There is, then, no ...
BOOK III PART II like obligations of interest, each of them must have a peculiar authority, independent of the other. But it is ...
BOOK III PART II terest may thus blind us with regard to our own actions, it takes not place with regard to those of others; nor ...
BOOK III PART II promises, is impossible, without submission to government. As there are here two interests en- tirely distinct ...
BOOK III PART II cating such notions, where their interest is so particularly concerned. Lest those arguments should not appear ...
BOOK III PART II tion of moral good and evil is founded on the pleasure or pain, which results from the view of any sentiment, o ...
BOOK III PART II tion in this case regards not any philosophical origin of an obligation, but a plain matter of fact, it is not ...
BOOK III PART II We find, that magistrates are so far from deriving their authority, and the obligation to obedience in their su ...
BOOK III PART II authority of their rulers, or promised to obey them, they would be inclined to think very strangely of you; and ...
BOOK III PART II find by experience, that it punishes them very freely for what it calls treason and rebellion, which, it seems, ...
BOOK III PART II crime at the same age as any other, which is criminal, of itself, without our consent; that is, when the person ...
BOOK III PART II and believe the one to add more force to the other, than in a repetition of the same promise. Where no promise ...
BOOK III PART II SECTIONIX. OF THEMEASURES OF ALLEGIANCE Those political writers, who have had re- course to a promise, or origi ...
BOOK III PART II resign their native liberty. There is, therefore, something mutual engaged on the part of the magistrate, viz, ...
BOOK III PART II part we will ever continue in obedience. I repeat it: This conclusion is just, though the principles be erroneo ...
BOOK III PART II diately connected with government, and which may be at once the original motive to its institu- tion, and the s ...
BOOK III PART II fect must cease also. For there is a principle of human nature, which we have frequently taken notice of, that ...
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