Purviance, Susan M. · 1997
The Moral Self and the Indirect Passions
Purviance, Susan M. (1997). “The Moral Self and the Indirect Passions.” Hume Studies 23(2): 195–212.
20
citations of the Treatise
52
paragraphs reached
15%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.75
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 64%Causation and the Appendix problem 20%Body and the external world 0%Immateriality of the soul 15%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
Nearest papers
- Humber 1995 similarity 0.68
Humes Invisible Self - Henderson 1990 similarity 0.67
David Hume on Personal Identity and the Indirect Passions - Cottrell 2015 similarity 0.65
Minds, Composition, and Humes Skepticism in the Appendix - Kail 2007 similarity 0.62
Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy - Ainslie 2008 similarity 0.59
Hume on Personal Identity
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 2: Of the ideas of space and time
Part 3: Of knowledge and probability
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 1: Of Pride and Humility
Part 3: Of the will and direct passions
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 251-253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.6 (7 paragraphs) | …utes this, since he can trace the idea of a self to no impression or group of impressions (T 251-253). He concludes that … |
| (T 254; 255) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (4 paragraphs) | …ur language but also our thought is affected, because we actually form a fictitious idea (T 254; 255). After Hume's Book… |
| (T 633-636) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 22 (16 paragraphs) | …er Hume's Book One treatment of personal identity and his further remarks in the Appendix (T 633-636), it would seem that… |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …at "no connexions among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding" (T 635). However, as Jane M… |
| (T 306) Citation pattern | T 2.1.9 (3 paragraphs) | …gs as our appearance, our relations, our property, even our climate and our native tongue (T 306), but in each case t… |
| (T 285-286) Citation pattern | T 2.1.5 (5 paragraphs) | …ny reason; but consider such a peculiar direction of the thought as an original quality. (T 285-286) Hume then says tha… |
| (T 286) Citation pattern | T 2.1.5 (3 paragraphs) | … according to the felt quality of the passion in question (as painful or bad or inferior) (T 286). Selfapprehension i… |
| (T 280) Citation pattern | T 2.1.3 (4 paragraphs) | …'d to have self foi their object, not only by a natural but also by an original property" (T 280).n It is this thin n… |
| (T 279) Citation pattern | T 2.1.2 (2 paragraphs) | …in experience that carry their object to consciousness with great frequency and intensity (T 279). The practical conc… |
| (T 277) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | … of related ideas and impressions, of which we have an intimate memory and consciousness" (T 277). The object is the … |
| (T 408) Citation pattern | T 2.3.2 (2 paragraphs) | …arantees a substantial self than the feeling of indifference proves that the will is free (T 408). When Hume turns to… |
| (T 277) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | … its object, but the identification of this self as a connected succession of perceptions (T 277) has been independen… |
| (T 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …says that the goal of a theory of personal identity is to account for "self or substance" (T 633). Then he reviews th… |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …e are "principles, that unite our successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" (T 636). Until this portion… |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | … the ideas of them are felt to be connected together, and naturally introduce each other" (T 635). But this feeling o… |
| (T 1) Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.1 | …sions are perceptions. Hume classifies the indirect passions as impressions and not ideas (T 1), and later more spe… |
| (T 276) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1 (3 paragraphs) | …ssions and not ideas (T 1), and later more specifically as violent reflective impressions (T 276), but that is not al… |
| " (46) Checked by model | T 1.2.4 (3 paragraphs) | …f will be shown, on Hume's view, to be the joint effects of a certain train of perceptions" (46). - 11 Immediately f… |
| (T 277) Citation pattern | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | … bring into consciousness through memory, and as that connected succession of perceptions (T 277), it is only in the … |
| (T 280) Citation pattern | T 2.1.3 (4 paragraphs) | …en by a property of thought "natural from the constancy and steadiness of its operations" (T 280). - 16 See Capaldi, … |