Map · Book 1: Of the Understanding · Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy · T 1.4.5 Of the immateriality of the soul
T 1.4.5.35
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There is no foundation for any conclusion a priori, either concerning the operations or duration of any object, of which 'tis possible for the human mind to form a conception. Any object may be imagin'd to become entirely inactive, or to be annihilated in a moment; and 'tis an evident principle, that whatever we can imagine, is possible. Now this is no more true of matter, than of spirit; of an extended compounded substance, than of a simple and unextended. In both cases the metaphysical arguments for the immortality of the soul are equally inconclusive; and in both cases the moral arguments and those deriv'd from the analogy of nature are equally strong and convincing. If my philosophy, therefore, |makes no addition to the arguments for religion, I have at least the satisfaction to think it takes nothing from them, but that every thing remains precisely as before.
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| Butchvarov 1959 | " (p. 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …r the manner it is here explain'd. For from what impression cou'd this idea be deriv'd ? " (p. 251). Hume's foremost i… |
| " (p. 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …ous of what we call our Self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence " (p. 251). If this is the co… | |
| " (p. 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …ion, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference " (p. 251), he asks the questi… | |
| " (p. 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …ous of what we call our Self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence " (p. 251) ; and what he asser… | |
| Robison 1974 focused | (T251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ition that if we have any such idea of the self, it must arise from "some one impression" (T251). The stronger argum… |
| (T251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …on, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference" (T251). It follows, Hume c… | |
| (T251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …magine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our S~.LF" are just wrong (T251). This argument is a… | |
| (T251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ld be "a manifest contradiction and absurdity" to suppose one has an impression of a self (T251). What is contradict… | |
| (T251-252) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.4 (5 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …from any other, that the idea of self is deriv'd; and consequently there is no such idea. (T251-252) If one is to have … | |
| (T251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …) it remains the same throughout its existence; and (c) we are intimately conscious of it (T251). What Hume denies i… | |
| Garrett 1981 | (T251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …nd individual" (T633), something "simple and continu'd" (T252), "constant and invariable" (T251), from which could b… |
| (T251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …xplained," that is, as the idea of something possessing "perfect identity and simplicity" (T251). But even though th… | |
| Davie 1984 | (T 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …n, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are suppos'd to have a reference." (T 251) The idea must be fr… |
| Henderson 1990 | (T 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … S. HENDERSON book about being unable to discover any impression constant and invariable (T 251)? In that context he… |
| Pappas 1992 | (T 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …, thro' the whole course of our lives; since self is suppos'd to exist after that manner. (T 251) He is also sharply… |
| Waxman 1992 focused | (T 251-52) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.4 (5 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …e 1.4.6 is entitled "Of personal identity"; it poses the problem in reference to the self (T 251-52), and solves it with… |
| Giles 1993 focused | " (p. 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Checked by model | …ession, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have reference" (p. 251). With this much sa… |
| " (p. 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …way. Thus it is claimed, for example, that "there is no impression constant and invariable" (p. 251), "there is no such … | |
| Yang 1998 focused | (251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Checked by model | … claim in the section Of Personal Identity. The argument from reductionism is as follows (251): 1. Every idea has… |
| Ainslie 1999 | (T 251 , 953 , 259, 260, 262) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.21 (9 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ion on personal identity Hume uses the terms 'self' (T 25x, 259, 253, 954, 262), 'person' (T 251 , 953 , 259, 260, 262), and 'soul' (T 254,… |
| (T 251-2) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.4 (5 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … of ourselves, for when he enters "most inumately" into himself he finds only perceptions (T 251-2); when he explains t… | |
| Green 1999 focused | ' (251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Quote matched to the Treatise | …tack: those 'who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF' (251). This seems perilou… |
| Penelhum 2000 focused | T 1. iv. 6. 251 T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …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… |
| Schwerin 2012 focused | (Treatise 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …se of our lives" is not borne out by the perceptual evidence available to each one of us. (Treatise 251). In the light of th… |
| (Treatise 251) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.2 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ails that the proposal from his rivals involves a "manifest contradiction and absurdity". (Treatise 251). The cluster of dif… | |
| Roth 1990 focused | (Treatise, pp. 251-53) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.6 (7 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …f. He quotes at length the passage in which Hume proposes his theory of personal identity (Treatise, pp. 251-53). He acknowledges Hu… |
| Swain 1991 | Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … together by the relation of cause and effect."4 Drawing on arguments he had developed in Treatise 1.4.5 and 6, Hume shows i… |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …,13 but rather to correct the mistaken impression Hume may have given at the beginning of Treatise 1.4.5 ("Of the immaterial… | |
| Loeb 1992 | 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ets a number of the nearly synonymous notions not only in 1.3.14, but also at T 246-51 of 1.4.5, and T 632-33 of th… |
| Purviance 1997 | (T 251-253) T 1.4.5.35 to T 1.4.6.6 (7 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …utes this, since he can trace the idea of a self to no impression or group of impressions (T 251-253). He concludes that … |
| Spector 1998 | 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …the entire empirical project to its logical conclusion. 40THN 1.4.4, pp. 225-231. 41THN 1.4.5, pp. 232-251. 42It… |
| 1.4.4-5 T 1.4.4.1 to T 1.4.5.31 n49 (58 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ation of the concept of identity is especially important with the concept of self. 49THN 1.4.4-5, pp. 225-251. Hume … | |
| THN 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …velops a way to answer the odd person in Book II's anatomical account of the passions. 5ITHN 1.4.5, concluding at para… | |
| McIntyre 2003 | Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …on of the Soul, however, it is surprising that they do not comment on Hume's arguments in Treatise 1.4.5, "Of the immaterial… |
| SBN 239-40, 250 T 1.4.5 (9 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … immaterial, because some of our perceptions are actually extended (T 1.4.5.15, 1.4.5.33; SBN 239-40, 250). Hume also argued … | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …dvantage to the materialists above their antagonists" (T 1.4.5.32; SBN 250). Attention to Treatise 1.4.5 shows that prior to… | |
| Ellis 2006 focused | T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … summarizes arguments Hume lays out earlier in the Treatise, mostly arguments advanced in T 1.4.5. In these two parag… |
| T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …he self's distinct perceptions together is itself in tension with Hume's earlier claim in T 1.4.5 that the "intellect… | |
| T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …referring to are from two different places in the Treatise. The first is his reasoning in T 1.4.5 that perceptions ar… | |
| T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …lain what actually connects distinct perceptions together is in tension with his claim in T 1.4.5 that the intellectu… | |
| Mcintyre 2009 | 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ositions Collins had defended found a congenial home in Hume's Treatise. ## ii. treatise 1.4.5 and hume's account … |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …d hume's account of the self Hume's extended account of the nature of the self begins in Treatise 1.4.5, "Of the immaterial… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … the central questions debated by Clarke and Collins. Of course, even before they reached 1.4.5, readers of the Tre… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity" (T 1.4.2.39). Hume's opening argument in Treatise 1.4.5 continues the criti… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …e of perceptions is no obstacle to their standing in causal relations to each other. Thus Treatise 1.4.5 ends having establi… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …em of personal identity can therefore be summed up in the following way: the arguments of Treatise 1.4.5 show that the mind … | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …reason can give of the material world." 24 This sentence refers to the first paragraph of Treatise 1.4.5, Of the immateriali… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …bjects with continued and independent existence. The account of the intellectual world in Treatise 1.4.5, Of the immateriali… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …d is nothing but perceptions, without an underlying substance. There is no need, then, in 1.4.5 to posit a feigned … | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … feigned "double existence" resulting from adherence to two contrary principles. In fact, 1.4.5 presents a clever a… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …T 1.4.6.19-20). This progression is the natural development of the position arrived at in 1.4.5, namely, that there… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …re, and hence that the mind can be nothing but perceptions and their causal relations. In 1.4.5 and 1.4.6 Hume neve… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …. Initially, therefore, there did not appear to be a problem with the account embedded in 1.4.5 and 1.4.6. Unfortu… | |
| Treatise 1.4.5-6 T 1.4.5.1 to T 1.4.6.6 n50 (66 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ions indicated that he had lost his confidence that philosophical arguments like those in Treatise 1.4.5-6 could counterbalanc… | |
| T 1.4.5-6 T 1.4.5.1 to T 1.4.6.6 n50 (66 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ovides examples of the persistence of many of the main tenets Hume sought to establish in T 1.4.5-6, even in passages n… | |
| T 1.4.5-6 T 1.4.5.1 to T 1.4.6.6 n50 (66 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …gument of this section of the Enquiry supports many of the conclusions Hume argued for in T 1.4.5-6. Everything we know… | |
| Garrett 2010 | T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …bstance, first offered in the section of the Treatise "Of the immateriality of the soul" (T 1.4.5) but partly repeate… |
| Strawson 2011 | 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …oryofmeaning.33 Bywayoffurtherproof,considertherathercharmingmovehemakesalittle lateronin1.4.5.'Thisgivesmeanoccas… |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ofobjectsconstitutesthev eryessenceofcauseandeffect.asfaraswehaveanynotionofthatrelation'(1.4.5 .33/250).Withregard… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …denteveryperceptionisasub stance,andeverydistinctpartofaperceptionadistinctsubstance'(244/1.4.5. 24).Ittakespractic… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …yandCausation;whicharetheonlybondsthatuniteourt houghtstogether.'. Comparethemovehemakesin1.4.5,discussedonp.50abov… | |
| 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …hichareplainlyresembling,asimplyingbothofthemanideaoftheobj ect.'(15/1.1.5.8).Inapassagein1.4.5alreadyquoted,hewrit… | |
| Thiel 2011 | I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …elevance of Book II to his account of personal identity. Other important sections include I.iv.5 on the immaterialit… |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …y and indivisibility of the human soul as substance is dealt with in the previous section I.iv.5 (ibid., p. 242). Th… | |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … I.iv.5 (ibid., p. 242). There, certain 'theologians' are Hume's target. Clearly, section I.iv.5 on immateriality pr… | |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ty is not relevant here; but he does not explain why. It should be obvious, however, from I.iv.5, where he argues th… | |
| Treatise I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … of the mind as a substance is an 'unintelligible' one (ibid.)-a point that Hume makes in Treatise I.iv.5. 'We have no idea o… | |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …e, 3 vols. (1898), vol. 1, p. 317. (13) Ibid., p. 323. (14) Ibid., p. 325. For section I.iv.5 and its importance … | |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …the Simplicity of the Soul', Hume Studies, 21 (1995), 25-45. For the relationship between I.iv.5 and 6, see 26. See … | |
| I.iv.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …and Tomaselli (1996), pp. 175-90. As Wright emphasises, referring especially to Treatise, I.iv.5, and the essay 'On … | |
| Strawson 2012 | THN 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …re] in themselves perfectly distinct' (THN 1.4.6.6 / 253). 9 Compare the move he makes in THN 1.4.5 / 232-51, discussed… |
| Pitson 2013 | T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … aspects of the self, those relating to the mind. In "Of the Immateriality of the Soul" (T 1.4.5)-a section which sh… |
| T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …tions with that of a substance-in other words, the very view of mind he has criticized in T 1.4.5 as being unintellig… | |
| Pereira 2014 | THN I.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … nutren con consideraciones adicionales que elabora al discutir la idea de sustancia (cf. THN I.4.5; SBN 231). El eleme… |
| Greco 2015 | T 1.4.5 T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … 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… |
| Rocknak 2019 | T 1.4.5.1-35 T 1.4.5 (35 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …N 225-231) and the notion of an immaterial soul ("Of the immateriality of the soul," i.e. T 1.4.5.1-35; SBN 232-251). Hum… |
| T 1.4.3-5 T 1.4.3.1 to T 1.4.5.31 n49 (69 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …losophers imagine immaterial soul-objects, ideas of objects are not based on impressions (T 1.4.3-5; SBN 219-251). For … |