Greco, Lorenzo · 2015
The Self as Narrative in Hume
Greco, Lorenzo (2015). “The Self as Narrative in Hume.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 53(4): 699–722.
75
citations of the Treatise
180
paragraphs reached
36%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.41
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 42%Causation and the Appendix problem 1%Body and the external world 18%Immateriality of the soul 39%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 3.3.1.3 5 other papers reach it
- T 3.3.1.26 2 other papers reach it
- T 0.4 1 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Penelhum 2000 similarity 0.95
Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion - Giles 1993 similarity 0.94
The No-Self Theory Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity - Schwerin 2012 similarity 0.93
Hume on the Self - Roth 1990 similarity 0.93
Hume and James on Personal Identity - Mendus 1980 similarity 0.93
Personal Identity The Two Analogies in Hume
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Introduction
Book 1: Of the Understanding
Part 1: Of Ideas, their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction, &c
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
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 3: Of the other virtues and vices
Appendix
Abstract
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 |
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| T 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | … connection among them. On the assumption that Hume uses the notions of "self or person" (T 1.4.6.2/SBN 251; T 1.4.6.5/… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …hem. On the assumption that Hume uses the notions of "self or person" (T 1.4.6.2/SBN 251; T 1.4.6.5/SBN 253; T 1.4.6.20… |
| T 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | …ion that Hume uses the notions of "self or person" (T 1.4.6.2/SBN 251; T 1.4.6.5/SBN 253; T 1.4.6.20/ SBN 262; T 1.4.7.3… |
| T 1.4.7.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.7.3 | …e notions of "self or person" (T 1.4.6.2/SBN 251; T 1.4.6.5/SBN 253; T 1.4.6.20/ SBN 262; T 1.4.7.3/SBN 265) 2 as synon… |
| T 2.1.5 Citation pattern | T 2.1.5 (11 paragraphs) | … Schechtman, The Constitution of Selves. ## 2 . a b und l e o f p e r c e p t i on s In T 2.1.5 Hume appears to giv… |
| T 2.1.5.3 Citation pattern | T 2.1.5.3 | …t individual person, of whose actions and sentiments each of us is intimately conscious" (T 2.1.5.3; SBN 286). A few pa… |
| T 2.1.9.1 Citation pattern | T 2.1.9.1 | … a body: "tho' pride and humility have the qualities of our mind and body, that is self" (T 2.1.9.1/SBN 303). Nonethele… |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … takes the section where Hume's "official theory" of personal identity is commonly found (T 1.4.6, but also T 1.4.5, … |
| T 1.4.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | … where Hume's "official theory" of personal identity is commonly found (T 1.4.6, but also T 1.4.5, and then the Appen… |
| T 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | …t he refers to in many different ways: the "self or person," but also the "idea of self" (T 1.4.6.2/SBN 251), "what I c… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …a of self" (T 1.4.6.2/SBN 251), "what I call myself," or, in the third person, "himself" (T 1.4.6.3/SBN 252), "the mind… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …"what I call myself," or, in the third person, "himself" (T 1.4.6.3/SBN 252), "the mind" (T 1.4.6.4/SBN 253), "the true… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …" (T 1.4.6.3/SBN 252), "the mind" (T 1.4.6.4/SBN 253), "the true idea of the human mind" (T 1.4.6.19/SBN 261), or "the s… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | … 1.4.6.4/SBN 253), "the true idea of the human mind" (T 1.4.6.19/SBN 261), or "the soul" (T 1.4.6.19/SBN 261). Even thou… |
| T 1.4.5.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.5 | …stence. They are, therefore, substances, as far as this definition explains a substance" (T 1.4.5.5/SBN 233). In the li… |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …finition explains a substance" (T 1.4.5.5/SBN 233). In the light of this, Hume goes on in T 1.4.6 to ask if our notio… |
| T 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | …lf at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception" (T 1.4.6.3/SBN 252); from this… |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …eed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement" (T 1.4.6.4/SBN 252). One prob… |
| T 2.1.11.8 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.8 | … Treatise Hume repeats various times that "[o]urself is always intimately present to us" (T 2.1.11.8/SBN 320). 4 But how… |
| T 2.2.2.15 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2.15 | … 320). 4 But how can he say that "we are at all times intimately conscious of ourselves" (T 2.2.2.15/SBN 339) if he has … |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …ught or imagination, and as it regards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves" (T 1.4.6.5/SBN 253). But one m… |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …s science of human nature. If one reads through Hume's discussion of personal identity in T 1.4.6 one will notice tha… |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …orality. ## 3 . p e r s on a l i d e n t i t y a nd th e n a t u r e o f th e m i nd In T 1.4.6 Hume takes his cue … |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | …place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos'd" (T 1.4.6.4/SBN 253), and asks … |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …g in succession, linked together by a relation of resemblance or contiguity or causation (T 1.4.6.6/SBN 253). These ide… |
| T 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …ing them is the same, and in this way, misled by "an easy transition of the imagination" (T 1.4.6.7/ SBN 255), we fall … |
| T 1.4.6.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.6 | …this derives our invention of notions such as those of "a soul, and self, and substance" (T 1.4.6.6/ 4 Consider also … |
| T 2.1.2.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.2 | …of related ideas and impressions, of which we have an intimate memory and consciousness" (T 2.1.2.2/SBN 277). "'Tis evi… |
| T 2.2.2.15 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2.15 | …with greater vivacity than the ideas of the sentiments and passions of any other person" (T 2.2.2.15/SBN 339). "The pass… |
| T 2.2.2.16 Citation pattern | T 2.2.2.16 | …n of any person related to us to that of ourself, of whom we are every moment conscious" (T 2.2.2.16/SBN 340). "The idea… |
| T 2.2.4.7 Citation pattern | T 2.2.4.7 | … a sensible degree of vivacity to the idea of any other object, to which we are related" (T 2.2.4.7/SBN 354). "Ourself … |
| T 2.3.7.1 Citation pattern | T 2.3.7.1 | … intimately present to us, and whatever is related to self must partake of that quality" (T 2.3.7.1/SBN 427). SBN 254)… |
| SBN 254 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …o us, and whatever is related to self must partake of that quality" (T 2.3.7.1/SBN 427). SBN 254) through which we g… |
| T 1.4.6.7 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.7 | …. SBN 254) through which we give ourselves an explanation of what is in fact an "error" (T 1.4.6.7/SBN 255), however i… |
| T 1.4.6.10-14 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …dual as to be almost imperceptible, or by the fact that the parts share a common end (see T 1.4.6.10-14/SBN 256-58). These … |
| T 1.4.6.8-9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …that of any object that, though altered in one of its parts, seems to us always the same (T 1.4.6.8-9/SBN 255-56). 5 In t… |
| T 1.4.6.18-20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …the memory, to ascribe identity on the grounds of relations of resemblance and causation (T 1.4.6.18-20/SBN 260-62). Altho… |
| T 1.4.2.39 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.39 | …s relations, with that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being" (T 1.4.2.39/SBN 207; see also T… |
| SBN 657-58 Citation pattern | Abstract (4 paragraphs) | …ceptions, which constitute a thinking being" (T 1.4.2.39/SBN 207; see also T Abstract, 28/SBN 657-58). 6 This being so, … |
| T 1.4.6.15 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.15 | …which has become so great a question in philosophy, especially of late years in England" (T 1.4.6.15/SBN 259), that is, … |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …perceptions. ## 4 . th e p r o b l em o f th e a p p e nd i x Notoriously, it is not in T 1.4.6 but in the Appendix… |
| T App 21 Citation pattern | App. 21 | …stences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences" (T App 21/SBN 636), then it w… |
| T App 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …r consciousness. I cannot discover any theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head" (T App 20/SBN 635-36). The A… |
| T 1.4.2.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.6 | …Deity?" 9 On a closer inspection, this was already clear to Hume in Book 1; in fact, at T 1.4.2.6/SBN 189, Hume says … |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ce that is simple, continuous, and identical to itself-that is, what Hume had rejected in T 1.4.6. 15 It has been poi… |
| T 2.1.2.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.2 | …nsciousness" we have of ourselves that Hume talks about in Books 2 and 3 of the Treatise (T 2.1.2.2/SBN 277), it is no … |
| T 2.3.7.1 Citation pattern | T 2.3.7.1 | …htman, The Constitution of Selves, 1-2. "[o]urself [which] is intimately present to us" (T 2.3.7.1/SBN 427). So what I… |
| T 2.1.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (6 paragraphs) | …hip between this pleasure and our idea of our self, and finally the passion of pride (see T 2.1.2). All this, however… |
| T 2.1.2.1 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.1 | …ne, of himself, will be able to form a just idea of them, without any danger of mistake" (T 2.1.2.1/ SBN 277). In being… |
| T 2.2.1.1 Citation pattern | T 2.2.1.1 | …y observ'd concerning pride and humility, and here repeat it concerning love and hatred" (T 2.2.1.1/SBN 329). 708 jour… |
| T 2.1.3.2-3 Citation pattern | T 2.1.3 (2 paragraphs) | …atural but also . . . an original property," or "an original quality or primary impulse" (T 2.1.3.2-3/SBN 280), the const… |
| T 2.1.2.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.2 | …either of those opposite affections, and are elated by pride, or dejected with humility" (T 2.1.2.2/SBN 277). By feelin… |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | ….2/SBN 277). By feeling these passions the concern we take in ourselves Hume refers to in T 1.4.6 can obtain; pride a… |
| T 2.1.11 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (21 paragraphs) | …ecome objects of each other's moral evaluations, thanks to the principle of sympathy (see T 2.1.11; T 3.3.2). In this … |
| T 3.3.2 Citation pattern | T 3.3.2 (21 paragraphs) | …cts of each other's moral evaluations, thanks to the principle of sympathy (see T 2.1.11; T 3.3.2). In this case, we … |
| T 2.1.8.1 Citation pattern | T 2.1.8.1 | …ody becomes here decisive in Hume's explanation of the working of pride and humility (see T 2.1.8.1; SBN 298). The caus… |
| T 2.1.2.5 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.5 | … in dancing, riding, fencing, and of his dexerity in any manual business or manufacture" (T 2.1.2.5/SBN 279). Hume says… |
| T 3.3.1.3 Citation pattern | T 3.3.1.3 | …tuous, which causes love or pride; and any one vicious, which causes hatred or humility" (T 3.3.1.3/ SBN 575). If one t… |
| T 3.3.4-5 Citation pattern | T 3.3.4.1 to T 3.3.5.6 (21 paragraphs) | …n Book 3 of the Treatise and in the Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (see esp. T 3.3.4-5; EPM 6-8), one clea… |
| T 1.4.2.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.9 | …ady recognizes a central role for the body in the definition of the person in Book 1 (see T 1.4.2.9/ SBN 190; and T 1.4… |
| T 1.4.5.30 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.30 | … role for the body in the definition of the person in Book 1 (see T 1.4.2.9/ SBN 190; and T 1.4.5.30/SBN 248). And, more… |
| SBN xv Citation pattern | Introduction (3 paragraphs) | …ial both whether Hume recognizes the foundations of his whole "science of MAN" (T Intro 4/SBN xv) only in the powers… |
| SBN xix Citation pattern | T 0.10 | …the world, by men's behaviour in company, in affairs, and in their pleasures" (T Intro 10/SBN xix). This is reiterate… |
| SBN 9 Citation pattern | T 1.1.3 (4 paragraphs) | …ciety . . . . Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man" (EHU 1.6/SBN 9). Thus it seems to … |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …ish a connection among experiences in one's life. Indeed, does Hume not mention memory in T 1.4.6, as that which keep… |
| T App 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …er to memory anymore when he asks, in the Appendix, what the "principle of connexion" is (T App 20/SBN 635) that binds… |
| T 2.1.2.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.2 | …, if memory plays any role in shaping personal identity, it is only an "intimate memory" (T 2.1.2.2/SBN 277; my emphasi… |
| T 1.4.6.20 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.20 | …r consequently of that chain of causes and effects, which constitute our self or person" (T 1.4.6.20/SBN 261-62). 36 T… |
| T 2.2.5.21 Citation pattern | T 2.2.5.21 | …objects of the considerations of others. "[T]he minds of men are mirrors to one another" (T 2.2.5.21/SBN 365); if we are… |
| T 3.3.1.26 Citation pattern | T 3.3.1.26 | …e are able to appreciate or dislike the image of our person that we have constructed (see T 3.3.1.26/SBN 589). 43 This c… |
| T 3.3.1.14 Citation pattern | T 3.3.1.14 | … we ourselves admire and respect, and the judgments expressed by a "judicious spectator" (T 3.3.1.14/SBN 581) pronouncin… |
| T 3.3.1.15-16 Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (2 paragraphs) | …N 581) pronouncing from the "steady and general," or "common," point of view of morality (T 3.3.1.15-16 and 30/SBN 581-82 a… |
| SBN 581-82 Citation pattern | T 3.3.1 (4 paragraphs) | …om the "steady and general," or "common," point of view of morality (T 3.3.1.15-16 and 30/SBN 581-82 and 591), we develo… |
| T 2.1.11.7 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.7 | …the present to pleasures and pains that are not yet actualized, but only anticipated (see T 2.1.11.7/SBN 319). 47 To say… |
| T 3.3.2.8 Citation pattern | T 3.3.2.8 | …ur own merit, and gives us confidence and assurance in all our projects and enterprizes" (T 3.3.2.8/SBN 596-97), which … |