T 3.2.2.11
SBN 490-1 · cited directly by 2 papers
After this convention, concerning abstinence from the possessions of others, is enter'd into, and every one has acquir'd a stability in his possessions, there immediately arise the ideas of justice and injustice; as also those of property, |right, and obligation. The latter are altogether unintelligible without first understanding the former. Our property is nothing but those goods, whose constant possession is establish'd by the laws of society; that is, by the laws of justice. Those, therefore, who make use of the words property, or right, or obligation, before they have explain'd the origin of justice, or even make use of itthem in that explication, are guilty of a very gross fallacy, and can never reason upon any solid foundation. A man's property is some object related to him. This relation is not natural, but moral, and founded on justice. 'Tis very preposterous, therefore, to imagine, that we can have any idea of property, without fully comprehending the nature of justice, and shewing its origin in the artifice and contrivance of men. The origin of justice explains that of property,. The same artifice gives rise to both. As our first and most natural sentiment of morals is founded on the nature of our passions, and gives the preference to ourselves and friends, above strangers; 'tis impossible there can be naturally any such thing as a fix'd right or property, while the opposite passions of men impel them in contrary directions, and are not restrain'd by any convention or agreement.
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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… | |
| THN 3.2.2.11 this paragraph Citation pattern | … Hume explicitly denies the existence of property outside of some kind of social network (THN 3.2.2.11, p. 491). Without s… | |
| 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… |