Map · Book 2: Of the Passions · Part 3: Of the will and direct passions · T 2.3.9 Of the direct passions
T 2.3.9.14
SBN 441-2 · cited directly by 0 papers, reached by 2 more through page or section ranges
When the contrary passions arise from objects entirely different, they take place alternately, the want of relation in the ideas separating the impressions from each other, and preventing their opposition. Thus when a man is afflicted for the loss of a law-suit, and joyful for the birth of a son, the mind running from the agreeable to the calamitous |object, with whatever celerity it may perform this motion, can scarcely temper the one affection with the other, and remain betwixt them in a state of indifference.
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| Ainslie 1995 | (T 441-2) T 2.3.9 (5 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ic. - 26 Hume would say that the contrary passions would be alternating, not simultaneous (T 441-2). - 27 See Smith. - … |
| Ainslie 2008 focused | T 2.3.9 T 2.3.9 (32 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ceptions: impressions cause ideas (T 1.1.1), the idea of a future pleasure causes desire (T 2.3.9), the passion of lo… |