Humes Treatise of Morals And Selections From the Treatise of the Passions
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OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES.
SECTION I.
Of the origin of the natural virtues and vices.
We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men. The examination of these will conclude this system of morals.
The chief spring or actuating principle of the human mind is pleasure or pain; and when these sensations are remov'd, both from our thought and feeling, we are, in a great meas- ure, incapable of passi...on or action, of desire or volition. The most immediate effects of pleasure and pain are the prepense and averse motions of the mind; which are diver- Book III. OF MORALS. 223 sified into volition, into desire and aversion, grief and joy, hope and fear, according as the pleasure or pain changes its situation, and becomes probable or improbable, certain or uncertain, or is consider'd as out of our power for the pres- ent moment. But when along with this, the objects, that cause pleasure or pain, acquire a relation to ourselves or others; they still continue to excite desire and aversion, grief and joy: But cause, at the same time, the indirect pas- sions of pride or humility, love or hatred, which in this case have a double relation of impressions and ideas to the pain or pleasure.
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OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES.
SECTION I.
Of the origin of the natural virtues and vices.
We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men. The examination of these will conclude this system of morals.
The chief spring or actuating principle of the human mind is pleasure or pain; and when these sensations are remov'd, both from our thought and feeling, we are, in a great meas- ure, incapable of passi...on or action, of desire or volition. The most immediate effects of pleasure and pain are the prepense and averse motions of the mind; which are diver- Book III. OF MORALS. 223 sified into volition, into desire and aversion, grief and joy, hope and fear, according as the pleasure or pain changes its situation, and becomes probable or improbable, certain or uncertain, or is consider'd as out of our power for the pres- ent moment. But when along with this, the objects, that cause pleasure or pain, acquire a relation to ourselves or others; they still continue to excite desire and aversion, grief and joy: But cause, at the same time, the indirect pas- sions of pride or humility, love or hatred, which in this case have a double relation of impressions and ideas to the pain or pleasure.
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