Garral, Michael D. · 2007
Is the Self in Hume Overmoralized?
Garral, Michael D. (2007). “Is the Self in Hume Overmoralized?.” Revista de Filosofía (Madrid) 32(1): 165–183.
19
citations of the Treatise
87
paragraphs reached
0%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.80
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 92%Causation and the Appendix problem 8%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 3.2.1.3 3 other papers reach it
- T 3.2.1.4 2 other papers reach it
- T 3.3.2.15 2 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Ainslie 1995 similarity 0.32
The Problem of the National Self in Humes Theory of Justice - Ainslie 1999 similarity 0.17
Scepticism About Persons in Book II of Humes Treatise - Ainslie 2003 similarity 0.16
Review Hume, a Scottish Socrates? - Spector 1998 similarity 0.16
Looking Through the Minds I Empiricism, Moral Psychology, and Humes Trouble with the Self - GalIagher 1992 similarity 0.10
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 3: Of Morals
Part 1: Of Virtue and Vice in general
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 479-83, 497) Citation pattern | T 3.2.1.7 to T 3.2.2.22 (14 paragraphs) | … in doing so it may sometimes contradict individual self-interest and communal well-being (T 479-83, 497). But, at bottom, mo… |
| (T 472) Citation pattern | T 3.1.2.4 | …, the experiencing of a "peculiar kind" of pleasure or sentiment upon approving something (T 472), and the evaluating… |
| (T 603) Citation pattern | T 3.3.3 (2 paragraphs) | …ulness or agreeableness of his or her qualities (and derivatively, actions and reactions) (T 603). In short, unless o… |
| (T 492) Citation pattern | T 3.2.2 (3 paragraphs) | …he postulates a form of self-reflexive regulation - e.g., when avidity constrains avidity (T 492), or causal reasonin… |
| (T 150, 173-76) Citation pattern | T 1.3.13.12 to T 1.3.16.3 (18 paragraphs) | …492), or causal reasoning distills rules or norms by which to judge of causes and effects (T 150, 173-76) - so here, in Hume,… |
| (T 478) Citation pattern | T 3.2.1 (4 paragraphs) | …ways be motivated to do so because she has overtly deliberated that acting so is virtuous (T 478) - not any more than… |
| (T 522) Citation pattern | T 3.2.5 (2 paragraphs) | …ion of performing it" and must always consciously intend to fulfill the promise she makes (T 522). Indeed, when she g… |
| (T 518) Citation pattern | T 3.2.5 (3 paragraphs) | …fulfill her promise she must have "no motive" to doing so "distinct from a sense of duty" (T 518). Thus she must not … |
| (T 606-614) Citation pattern | T 3.3.3.8 to T 3.3.5.2 (19 paragraphs) | …alent and virtue elicit more or less the same sympathetic moral feelings in the spectator (T 606-614); second, that there… |
| (T 608) Citation pattern | T 3.3.4 (3 paragraphs) | … Hume doesn't do). Aspectator's pleasurable response to the former pair may not vary much (T 608), but presumably her… |
| (T 479) Citation pattern | T 3.2.1 (3 paragraphs) | …ural" virtues of, say, humanity (qua benevolence), generosity (EPM 9.19) and gratefulness (T 479) as duties we are ob… |
| (T 478, 518) Citation pattern | T 3.2.1.3 to T 3.2.5.4 n77 (7 paragraphs) | …children), a parent's obligations are rooted in her being "bound by the laws of humanity" (T 478, 518). Moreover, these ar… |
| (T 544-45) Citation pattern | T 3.2.8 (4 paragraphs) | … binding than the "interested" virtues or requirements of promise-keeping and justice are (T 544-45). Not that the two t… |
| (T 600) Citation pattern | T 3.3.2 (3 paragraphs) | …sts while praising the latter as transcendent bearers of "the most sublime kind of merit" (T 600). But beyond the rhe… |
| (T 517) Citation pattern | T 3.2.5 (3 paragraphs) | …displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it." (T 517) 39 Shaver, p. 555.… |
| (T 568-9) Citation pattern | T 3.2.11 (4 paragraphs) | … where Hume does seem to allow that the strength and force of a moral obligation may vary (T 568-9) or where the extent… |
| (T 530-33) Citation pattern | T 3.2.6 (5 paragraphs) | …or where the extent and inflexible nature of the obligation itself may admit of "degrees" (T 530-33), it is far from cle… |
| (T 569) Citation pattern | T 3.2.11 (2 paragraphs) | …r just how much can be made from so little. Nor is it clear how talk of duty by "degrees" (T 569) might sit with resp… |
| (T 580) Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (3 paragraphs) | …riability of sympathy when it comes to making moral judgments and fulfilling moral duties (T 580). In any event, a pr… |