Penelhum, Terence · 2000
Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion
Penelhum, Terence (2000). “Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion.” key chapters are 2-6, have 2, 4, 5, will create a single file for these.
40
citations of the Treatise
62
paragraphs reached
40%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.05
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, and cites something almost nobody else does.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 46%Causation and the Appendix problem 0%Body and the external world 45%Immateriality of the soul 9%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
Nearest papers
- Greco 2015 similarity 0.95
The Self as Narrative in Hume - Giles 1993 similarity 0.94
The No-Self Theory Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity - Yang 1998 similarity 0.94
Humes View on Personal Identity Scepticism or Nonscepticism? - Mendus 1980 similarity 0.93
Personal Identity The Two Analogies in Hume - Schwerin 2012 similarity 0.93
Hume on the Self
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
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
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 1. iv. 6. 261 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ter and disposition, as well as his impre ssions and ideas, without losing his identity. (T 1. iv. 6. 261) This does not, tak… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 258 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …mblance, and there is nothing numerically the same, but the cause, which produc' d them. (T 1. iv. 6. 258) I do not think the… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 258 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …nts of the parish; and yet this alone is sufficient to make us denominate them the same. (T 1. iv. 6. 258) Here again the exa… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 252 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …to own. So each qf us is 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different per ceptio[ls' (T 1. iv. 6. 252); again, 'They are … |
| T 1. iv. 6. 253 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … iv. 6. 252); again, 'They are the successive perceptions only, hat constitute the mind' (T 1. iv. 6. 253). If this is the ca… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 255 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …upted but 'are sup pos'd to continue the same', consist of a succession of related parts (T 1. iv. 6. 255). He first takes us… |
| T 1.iv. 2. 187 Citation pattern | T 1.4.1.12 to T 1.4.2.2 (3 paragraphs) | …e be body or not? That is a point, which we must take for granted in all our reasonings' (T 1.iv. 2. 187). He then tries to … |
| T 1.iv.6. 254 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …eptions of our senses, and 'run into' the notions of soul, self, and subs(ance; sentence (T 1.iv.6. 254) which seems to put… |
| T 1.iv.6. 253 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ught or imagination, and as it regards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves' (T 1.iv.6. 253). But the Treatise … |
| TI. iv. 6. 253 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ossest of an invariable and uninterrupted existence thro' the whole course of our lives? (TI. iv. 6. 253) This is a question… |
| T II. i. 1. 276-7 Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.2 to T 2.1.2.3 (6 paragraphs) | … 'good or evil, pain or pleasure', but also require the 'conjunction of other qualities' (T II. i. 1. 276-7). He lists them as … |
| T II. i. 2. 278 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (3 paragraphs) | …so an object, which he describes as 'that to which they direct their view, when excited' (T II. i. 2. 278). This looks a quit… |
| T II. i. 5. 287 Citation pattern | T 2.1.5 (3 paragraphs) | …n she has assigned a certain idea, viz. that of self, which it never fails to produce,' (T II. i. 5. 287). ;;1 ,i I : '.] ,I… |
| TI. iv. 6. 253 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ght or imagination, and as it regards our pas sions or the concern we take in ourselves' (TI. iv. 6. 253). If one does this,… |
| T1. iv. 6. 261 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ach other, and by giving us a present concern for our past or future pains or pleasures' (T1. iv. 6. 261): that is, the life… |
| T II. i. 2. 278 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (3 paragraphs) | … The first idea, therefore, represents the cause, the second the object, of the passion' (T II. i. 2. 278). This seems to say… |
| T II. i. 6. 292 Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (4 paragraphs) | …ct of pride is something the passion produces. But let us now look at another passage, at T II. i. 6. 292, where Hume explain… |
| T II. i. 6. 292 Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (4 paragraphs) | …ward a con templation of the self by the stimulus of that phenomenon. As the statement at T II. i. 6. 292 indicates, he is fu… |
| T II. i. 3. 280 Citation pattern | T 2.1.3 (4 paragraphs) | …ssages for the fact that we have the self-other dis tinction. He does, certainly, say (at T II. i. 3. 280 and again at T II. … |
| T II. i. 5. 286 Citation pattern | T 2.1.5 (3 paragraphs) | …ave the self-other dis tinction. He does, certainly, say (at T II. i. 3. 280 and again at T II. i. 5. 286) that the connectio… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 252 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …r'd, and may exist separately, and have no need of any thing to support their existence' (T 1. iv. 6. 252). And earlier, 'Now… |
| T 1. iv. 2. 207 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …s relations, with that connected mass of perceptions, which constitute a thinking being' (T 1. iv. 2. 207). , II 98 The Self… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 251 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) | …tely conscious; nor is there any thing, of which we can be certain, if we doubt of this. (T 1. iv. 6. 251) Further down the s… |
| T 2. ii. 6. 366 Citation pattern | T 2.2.6 (2 paragraphs) | …ul introspection on which this science relies, the mind's contents are 'perfectly known' (T 2. ii. 6. 366). This assumption h… |
| T 1. iv. 2. 207 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …tuitive access to the deeper facts on which these sequences depend. When Hume tells us at T 1. iv. 2. 207 that there is no ab… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 252 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ting off a perception from the mind to which it belongs, and tells us, there and again at T 1. iv. 6. 252 that we are nothing… |
| T 1. iv. 2. 207 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …e mind is 'suppos'd, tho' falsely, to be endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity' (T 1. iv. 2. 207) there is no good r… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 252 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …inclined to the rationalist view will say he has no right to use. Hurne, after ail, says (T 1. iv. 6. 252) 'For my part, when… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 255 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …mind bears to that, by which we contemplate one continu'd object, that the error arises' (T 1. iv. 6. 255). Hume, Identity an… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 256 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …al after changes that are small in proportion to the whole as an 'im perfect ident ity ' (T 1. iv. 6. 256), and Ashley and St… |
| T 1.iv. 6. 259- 60 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (4 paragraphs) | …s that constitute their histories. I would rather argue, in the light of his own analogy (T 1.iv. 6. 259- 60) between the ascrip… |
| T 1.iv. 6. 259 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | … us that '(t)he identity, which we ascribe to the mind of man, is only a fictitious one' (T 1.iv. 6. 259), and not read him … |
| T 1.iv. 6. 263 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 to T 1.4.7.1 (3 paragraphs) | … its conception. From this similarity of operation we attribute a simplicity to it ... ' (T 1.iv. 6. 263). The notion of the… |
| T 2.i.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (6 paragraphs) | …e and others, I do not see reason to retract these arguments. Hume introduces the self in T 2.i.2. 277. Pride and hum… |
| T 2. i. 2. 278 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ct. The object of these passions is 'that to which they direct their view, when excited' (T 2. i. 2. 278). Hume seems anxiou… |
| T 2. ii. 1. 329 Citation pattern | T 2.2.1 (2 paragraphs) | … and impressions, of which we have an intimate memory and consciousness'. He is later (at T 2. ii. 1. 329) to say that the ob… |
| T 1. iv. 6. 253 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … Sel.fhood 121 puzzle about identity that Hume addresses, then, in his famous question at T 1. iv. 6. 253 is a puzzle about h… |
| T 2. i. 2. 279 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (2 paragraphs) | …atter of the exciting cause being a qual ity of myself as its subject. (See, for example, T 2. i. 2. 279: ' Beauty , conside… |
| T 2. i. 11. 317 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (3 paragraphs) | …, that 'tis not possible to imagine, that any thing can in this particular go beyond it. (T 2. i. 11. 317) The phenomenon tha… |
| T 1. iv. 2. 190 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) | …antly true that personal identity as it regards the passions is 17 The key texts here are T 1. iv. 2. 190 and EU vi. 66. On t… |