Map · Book 2: Of the Passions · Part 1: Of Pride and Humility · T 2.1.11 Of the love of fame
T 2.1.11.15
SBN 322 · cited directly by 0 papers, reached by 4 more through page or section ranges
First, We may infer from them, that the uneasiness of being contemn'd depends on sympathy, and that sympathy depends on the relation of objects to ourselves; since we are most uneasy under the contempt of persons, who are both related to us by blood, and contiguous in place. Hence we seek to diminish this sympathy and uneasiness by separating these relations, and placing ourselves in a contiguity to strangers, and at a distance from relations.
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| Penelhum 1992 | Treatise 2.1.11 T 2.1.11 (21 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …g for my concern for others. This of course is true; but when Hume first introduces it in Treatise 2.1.11, he uses it as a "s… |
| Ainslie 1995 | (T 322-3) T 2.1.11 (7 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …t between our pride (and hence our self-conceptions) and the attitudes of those around us (T 322-3). Those feeling the … |
| Ainslie 2003 | T 2.1.11.14-18 T 2.1.11 (5 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … myself as importantly defined by my family history (through pride or humility in it, see T 2.1.11.14-18, SBN 322-3) that I … |
| Greco 2015 | T 2.1.11 T 2.1.11 (21 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …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 … |