T 3.2.2.10
SBN 490 · cited directly by 1 paper, reached by 1 more through page or section ranges
This convention is not of the nature of a promise: For even promises themselves, as we shall see afterwards, arise from human conventions. It is only a general sense of common interest; which sense all the members of the society express to one another, and which induces them to regulate their conduct by certain rules. I observe, that it will be for my interest to leave another in the possession of his goods, provided he will act in the same manner with regard to me. He is sensible of a like interest in the regulation of his conduct. When this common sense of interest is mutually express'd, and is known to both, it produces a suitable resolution and behaviour. And this may properly enough be call'd a convention or agreement betwixt us, tho' without the interposition of a promise; since the actions of each of us have a reference to those of the other, and are perform'd upon the supposition, that something is to be perform'd on the other part. Two men, who pull the oars of a boat, do it by an agreement or convention, tho' they have never given promises to each other. Nor is the rule concerning the stability of possession the less deriv'd from human conventions, that it arises gradually, and acquires force by a slow progression, and by our repeated experience of the inconveniences of transgressing it. On the contrary, this experience assures us still more, that the sense of interest has become common to all our fellows, and gives us a confidence of the future regularity of their conduct: And 'tis only on the expectation of this, that our moderation and abstinence are founded. In like manner are languages gradually establish'd by human conventions without any promise. In like manner do gold and silver become the common measures of exchange, and are esteem'd sufficient payment for what is of a hundred times their value.
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| Ainslie 1995 | (T 490) T 3.2.2 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …violated as members of a public with whom we share the "general sense of common interest" (T 490) that allowed the ar… |
| Spector 1998 | 3.2.2 T 3.2.2 (28 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … 3.2.1 Book I's Conceptual Empiricism.............................................. 101 3.2.2 Bodily Continuity..… |
| 3.2.2 T 3.2.2 (28 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … ·Chapter Four discusses the developmental aspects of Hume's account of the passions. ## 3.2.2 Bodily Continuity … | |
| 3.2.2 T 3.2.2 (28 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … into our passions and emotions; none of which can possibly represent a substance." ^See 3.2.2 note. Hume begins … | |
| 3.2.2 T 3.2.2 (28 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … rather than experience. 73THN 1.4.1.12, p. 187. 74THN 1.4.2.1, p. 187. 75As we saw in 3.2.2, early signs of Hum… | |
| 3.2.2 T 3.2.2 (28 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …nd-up, but in his account of bodily continuity, he does take a step away from atomism, as 3.2.2 showed. *Hume says… | |
| 3.2.2 T 3.2.2 (28 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … in his struggle with the issue of personal identity with regard to thought. As we saw in 3.2.2, that question only… |