Henderson, Robert S. · 1990
David Hume on Personal Identity and the Indirect Passions
Henderson, Robert S. (1990). “David Hume on Personal Identity and the Indirect Passions.” Hume Studies 16(1): 33–44.
32
citations of the Treatise
65
paragraphs reached
13%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.27
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 76%Causation and the Appendix problem 0%Body and the external world 8%Immateriality of the soul 16%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
Nearest papers
- Penelhum 1992 similarity 0.79
The Self of Book 1 and the Selves of Book 2 - Penelhum 2000 similarity 0.71
Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion - Purviance 1997 similarity 0.67
The Moral Self and the Indirect Passions - Greco 2015 similarity 0.67
The Self as Narrative in Hume - Butchvarov 1959 similarity 0.64
The Self and Perceptions a Study in Humean Philosophy
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
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 1: Of Virtue and Vice in general
Appendix
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 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … each other, and by giving us a present concern for our past or future pains or pleasures (T 261). In the advertiseme… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …n of a person's perceptions through the association of ideas by resemblance and causation (T 261). Examination of th… |
| (T 276) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1 (3 paragraphs) | …ndirect passions. Direct passions arise immediately fromgood or evil, frompain orpleasure (T 276). Examples are joy, … |
| (T 276) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1 (3 paragraphs) | …irect passions proceed from the same principles, but by the conjunction ofother qualities (T 276). That is, the indir… |
| (T 471) Citation pattern | T 3.1.2 (3 paragraphs) | …m the contemplation of a character. The very feeling constitutes our praise or admiration (T 471). We shall see that … |
| (T 277) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …identity. ## Ill Hume writes that pride and humility are simple and uniform impressions (T 277) and that love and h… |
| (T 329) Citation pattern | T 2.2.1 (2 paragraphs) | …d uniform impressions (T 277) and that love and hatred produce merely a simple impression (T 329). To speak of these … |
| (T 5) Citation pattern | T 1.1.1 (3 paragraphs) | …orm to ourselves ajust idea ofthe taste ofa pine-apple, without having actually tasted it (T 5). If a person has no… |
| (T 277) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …n of related ideas and impressions, of which we have an intimate memory and consciousness (T 277). Kemp Smith writes … |
| (T 255) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …nvariableness and uninterruptedness, are such as consist ofa succession ofrelated objects (T 255). The phrase of whi… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ions of self-identity. Hume holds that self is both discovered and produced by the memory (T 261). Memory discovers r… |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …st perceptions, that compose a mind, the ideas of them are felt to be connected together. (T 635) Self is the object… |
| (T 277) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …el either ofthese opposite affections, and are elated by pride, or dejected with humility (T 277). Pride and humility… |
| (T 277) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …When selfenters not into the consideration, there is no room either for pride or humility (T 277). It is a logical im… |
| (T 303) Citation pattern | T 2.1.8.8 to T 2.1.9.1 (3 paragraphs) | …pend on these evaluations which concern the qualities of our mind and body, that is, self'(T 303). In a passage in Bo… |
| (T 257) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …t becomes a man, and is sometimes fat, sometimes lean, without any change in his identity (T 257). These passages are… |
| (T 277-8) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.5 (6 paragraphs) | …share the same object, self, he argues that the selfcannot be the cause of these passions (T 277-8). That is, Hume argu… |
| (T 278) Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ixt that idea, which excites them, and that to which they direct their view, when excited (T 278). The cause of a pas… |
| (T 278) Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (3 paragraphs) | … plac'd betwixt two ideas, of which the one produces it, and the other is produc'd by it. (T 278) Recall that the pa… |
| (T 279) Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (2 paragraphs) | …uality of the thing is pleasant, then it is a source of pride; if it is painful, humility (T 279). At this point Hume… |
| (T 413) Citation pattern | T 2.3.3 (2 paragraphs) | …rom demonstration or probability; [and] as it regards the abstract relations of our ideas (T 413). Reason then is una… |
| (T 187) Citation pattern | T 1.4.1.12 to T 1.4.2.2 (3 paragraphs) | …vain to ask Whether there be body or noti, it is as vain to ask whether this body is mine (T 187). Unlike some relati… |
| (T 280) Citation pattern | T 2.1.3 (4 paragraphs) | …n'd to have self for their object, not only by a natural but also by an original property (T 280). That a natural pro… |
| (T 280) Citation pattern | T 2.1.3 (4 paragraphs) | …by an original property which he calls the distinguishingcharacteristic of these passions (T 280). This is a referenc… |
| (T 280) Citation pattern | T 2.1.3 (4 paragraphs) | … into no other: And such is the quality, which determines the object ofpride and humility (T 280). This suggests that… |
| (T 291) Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (4 paragraphs) | …re is not only a relation requir'd, but a close one, and a closer than is requir'd to joy (T 291). Hume is distinguis… |
| (T 292) Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (4 paragraphs) | … ourselves more happy, as well as more virtuous or beautiful, when we appear so to others (T 292). We shall shortly e… |
| (T 293) Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (3 paragraphs) | …s, whose existence is more durable; by which means its inconstancy appears still greater. (T 293) One characteristic… |
| (T 303) Citation pattern | T 2.1.8.8 to T 2.1.9.1 (3 paragraphs) | …e the qualities ofmind and body, that is self, for their natural andmore immediate causes (T 303). Selfismind and bod… |
| (T 365) Citation pattern | T 2.2.5 (3 paragraphs) | … the idea of self. Elsewhere Hume remarks that the minds ofmen are mirrors to one another (T 365). This is part ofwha… |
| (T 317-18) Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (7 paragraphs) | … in ourselves. The case is the same with the fabric of the mind, as with that ofthe body. (T 317-18) When Hume writes t… |
| (T 251) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | … S. HENDERSON book about being unable to discover any impression constant and invariable (T 251)? In that context he… |