Ainslie, Donald C. · 1995
The Problem of the National Self in Humes Theory of Justice
Ainslie, Donald C. (1995). “The Problem of the National Self in Humes Theory of Justice.” Hume Studies 21(2): 289–313.
51
citations of the Treatise
122
paragraphs reached
0%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.80
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 98%Causation and the Appendix problem 2%Body and the external world 0%Immateriality of the soul 0%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 2.3.9.14 1 other papers reach it
- T 3.2.6.1 no other paper reaches it
- T 3.2.7.5 no other paper reaches it
Nearest papers
- Ainslie 1999 similarity 0.35
Scepticism About Persons in Book II of Humes Treatise - Garral 2007 similarity 0.32
Is the Self in Hume Overmoralized? - Spector 1998 similarity 0.29
Looking Through the Minds I Empiricism, Moral Psychology, and Humes Trouble with the Self - Carlson 2009 similarity 0.27
There Is Just One Idea of Self in Humes Treatise - GalIagher 1992 similarity 0.21
The Theater of Personal Identity From Hume to Derrida
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
Part 3: Of knowledge and probability
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 1: Of Pride and Humility
Part 2: Of love and hatred
Part 3: Of the will and direct passions
Book 3: Of Morals
Part 2: Of justice and injustice
Part 3: Of the other virtues and vices
The evidence
Every citation the pipeline accepted, with the words around it. “Citation pattern” means a standard Norton or Selby-Bigge reference; “quote matched” means the quoted words were found in the Treatise at that page; “checked by model” means a language model judged an ambiguous page number to be a Treatise citation.
| Cited as | Maps to | Context |
|---|---|---|
| (T 486) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2 (2 paragraphs) | …perative convention is the family, the result of the "natural appetite betwixt the sexes" (T 486). That is, Hume sees… |
| (T 489) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2 (2 paragraphs) | …fied when constrained by the artifice of property than they are without such a constraint (T 489); the interested "pa… |
| (T 492) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2 (3 paragraphs) | …; the interested "passion is much better satisfy'd by its restraint, than by its liberty" (T 492). When inconvenience… |
| (T 484, 526) Citation pattern | T 3.2.1.18 to T 3.2.6.2 (6 paragraphs) | …eniences in the strictness of the idea of property contained in the first "law of nature" (T 484, 526) are recognized, the… |
| (T 526) Citation pattern | T 3.2.6 (2 paragraphs) | …igation of promises. These artifices, too, are nothing but "more artful and refin'd ways" (T 526) of satisfying natur… |
| (T 537) Citation pattern | T 3.2.7 (3 paragraphs) | …following the laws of nature, despite the frequent short-term advantage in violating them (T 537); and it helps to co… |
| (T 538) Citation pattern | T 3.2.7 (2 paragraphs) | … (T 537); and it helps to coordinate complicated projects which are to the benefit of all (T 538). Hume thinks that t… |
| (T 540) Citation pattern | T 3.2.8 (2 paragraphs) | …sually makes the usefulness of government apparent is war, where the need for a "captain" (T 540) is manifest. When t… |
| (T 498) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2 (3 paragraphs) | … the artifices' restraints? Why is there more than an interest-based "natural obligation" (T 498) to be just? Hume's … |
| (T 500) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2 (3 paragraphs) | …al obligation" to be just is a consequence of our sympathizing with the "public interest" (T 500) (or the "interest o… |
| (T 577) Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (4 paragraphs) | …ympathetically sharing the pleasure of their beneficiaries, namely the members of society (T 577). Now, however, we m… |
| (T 317) Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (3 paragraphs) | …s that "the idea, or rather impression of ourselves is always intimately present with us" (T 317)9 and that this impr… |
| (T 318) Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (5 paragraphs) | …lance and causation are also suitable, although less efficient, for the vivacity transfer (T 318). Thus parents and c… |
| (T 318) Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (5 paragraphs) | …as do people who resemble one another in "manners, or character, or country, or language" (T 318). Since Hume's sympa… |
| (T 580-81) Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (4 paragraphs) | …icated passions are more strongly felt the stronger the relation between the communicants (T 580-81). Note that Hume's … |
| (T 582) Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (3 paragraphs) | …at is, we view the relevant person's character for justice from a "general point of view" (T 582).10 If our society i… |
| (T 490) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2 (2 paragraphs) | …violated as members of a public with whom we share the "general sense of common interest" (T 490) that allowed the ar… |
| (T 580) Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (3 paragraphs) | …or whom we are concern'd, who receives benefit from justice, but the whole society alike. (T 580) Of course, our dis… |
| (T 497) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2 (2 paragraphs) | …t might seem to be not only beneficial to the parties involved, but also morally required (T 497). The moral evaluati… |
| (T 499) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2.24 | … My suggestion is that we look to what Hume says at the start of the passage quoted above (T 499), where he describes… |
| (T 146-7) Citation pattern | T 1.3.13 (6 paragraphs) | …atise, though, he initially dismisses them as "rash," "errors," the result of "prejudice" (T 146-7). But he then goes o… |
| (T 403) Citation pattern | T 2.3.1 (3 paragraphs) | …uniformities ("the very essence of necessity") gives us warrant to think in terms of them (T 403). The same tension a… |
| (T 575) Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (5 paragraphs) | …ons by relating them to their character-sources, which in turn cause the moral sentiments (T 575). We must, however, … |
| (T 279, 306, 352) Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.5 to T 2.2.4.4 (8 paragraphs) | …sadvantages" (T 33O);25 our "country," also, is a frequent cause of the indirect passions (T 279, 306, 352). And since he takes… |
| (T 291) Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (4 paragraphs) | …rative; their causes must be "peculiar to us, or at least common to us with a few people" (T 291). Thus the imaginati… |
| (T 316) Citation pattern | T 2.1.10.12 to T 2.1.11.2 (3 paragraphs) | …us...to others" [T 292]) so that it can, through the mechanism of sympathy, be "seconded" (T 316) or supported by oth… |
| (T 353) Citation pattern | T 2.2.4 (2 paragraphs) | …erence to who we are, then we will see it as making a difference in others who share them (T 353). If someone lacks t… |
| (T 149-50) Citation pattern | T 1.3.13 (5 paragraphs) | … imagination's propensity to extend a regularity beyond what we have actually experienced (T 149-50). In the case at han… |
| (T 293) Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (3 paragraphs) | …'s wealth and power is his explanation for our dividing people into socioeconomic "ranks" (T 293). Because there is a… |
| (T 293) Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (3 paragraphs) | …oral and social space; without them, "we wou'd be very much embarass'd with every object" (T 293); we would be unable… |
| (T 486) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2 (2 paragraphs) | …eas the starting point for the family is lust, the "natural attraction betwixt the sexes" (T 486), the starting point… |
| (T 402) Citation pattern | T 2.3.1 (3 paragraphs) | …ing point for the familial sense is the natural affection parents have for their children (T 402). Of course, our lov… |
| (T 338) Citation pattern | T 2.2.2 (3 paragraphs) | … relations; as nothing mortifies [a form of humility] us more than their vice and infamy. (T 338) The natural love f… |
| (T 486) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2 (2 paragraphs) | …, becoming more than a mere extended family, this original, familial "principle of union" (T 486) is no longer adequa… |
| (T 348) Citation pattern | T 2.2.3 (3 paragraphs) | …t, and violent: But always esteem ourselves and allies equitable, moderate, and merciful. (T 348) Wartime unites a p… |
| (T 548, 555) Citation pattern | T 3.2.8.9 to T 3.2.10.3 (2 paragraphs) | …nto a family, the general rules of nationality apply to each of us as soon as we are born (T 548, 555); nations thus satis… |
| (T 292-93) Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (6 paragraphs) | …e born (T 548, 555); nations thus satisfy Hume's fourth limitation to the causes of pride (T 292-93). Nationality is not… |
| (T 569) Citation pattern | T 3.2.11 (2 paragraphs) | …t"; the artifices accordingly become less secure, as in the case of international justice (T 569). By the end of the … |
| (T 322-3) Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (7 paragraphs) | …t between our pride (and hence our self-conceptions) and the attitudes of those around us (T 322-3). Those feeling the … |
| (T 551) Citation pattern | T 3.2.9 (2 paragraphs) | …ity of resistance if the English maltreatment of the Scots became "perfectly intolerable" (T 551).41 We can extrapol… |
| (T 543) Citation pattern | T 3.2.8 (2 paragraphs) | …civil justice," as opposed to one of "natural justice," connected with the laws of nature (T 543). 8 A Humean obliga… |
| (T 517) Citation pattern | T 3.2.5 (3 paragraphs) | …d when we would disapprove of the character of someone who omitted the action in question (T 517). 9 The interpretiv… |
| (T 569) Citation pattern | T 3.2.11 (2 paragraphs) | … with members of other societies lessens the need for respect of the artifices of justice (T 569). Why then do we vie… |
| (T 581) Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (2 paragraphs) | …Hume requires that we correct for the difference in the ease of sympathetic communication (T 581). This does not, how… |
| (T 580) Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (3 paragraphs) | …ciety, rather than to those immediately harmed or benefitted by the character in question (T 580). - 13 The question… |
| (T 318) Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (5 paragraphs) | …4 Note that Hume points to a commonality of character as easing sympathetic communication (T 318). - 15 Hume uses 'ch… |
| (T 316-17) Citation pattern | T 2.1.10.12 to T 2.1.11.4 (5 paragraphs) | …forms of government in determining national character in his first treatment of the issue (T 316-17). And in the History… |
| (T 332) Citation pattern | T 2.2.1.9 to T 2.2.2.1 (2 paragraphs) | … chap. 5. - 25 Hume makes this claim about love; but the parallel between pride and love (T 332) makes my claim unpr… |
| (T 441-2) Citation pattern | T 2.3.9 (5 paragraphs) | …ic. - 26 Hume would say that the contrary passions would be alternating, not simultaneous (T 441-2). - 27 See Smith. - … |
| (T 329) Citation pattern | T 2.2.1 (2 paragraphs) | … do not attend to such features. - 33 Note that Hume's restriction of love only to people (T 329) leaves him no conce… |
| (T 383) Citation pattern | T 2.2.9 (4 paragraphs) | …ve we feel for our business partners consequent to our having a shared interest with them (T 383). Presumably, a war … |