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T 3.2.2.9

SBN 489 · cited directly by 1 paper, reached by 1 more through page or section ranges

The remedy, then, is not deriv'd from nature, but from artifice; or more properly speaking, nature provides a remedy in the judgment and understanding, for what is irregular and incommodious in the affections. For when men, from their early education in society, have become sensible of the infinite advantages that result from it, and have besides acquir'd a new affection to company and conversation; and when they have observ'd, that the principal disturbance in society arises from those goods, which we call external, and from their looseness and easy transition from one person to another; they must seek for a remedy, by putting these goods, as far as possible, on the same footing with the fix'd and constant advantages of the mind and body. This can be done after no other manner, than by a convention enter'd into by all the members of the society to bestow stability on the possession of those external goods, and leave every one in the peaceable enjoyment of what he may acquire by his fortune and industry. By this means, every one knows what he may safely possess; and the passions are restrain'd in their partial and contradictory motions. Nor is such a restraint contrary to these passions; for if so, it cou'd never be enter'd into, nor maintain'd; but it is only contrary to their heedless and impetuous movement. Instead of departing from our own interest, or from that of our nearest friends, by abstaining from the possessions of others, we cannot better consult both these interests, than by such a convention; because it is by that means we maintain society, which is so necessary to their well-being and subsistence, as well as to our own.

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Ainslie 1995(T 489)
T 3.2.2 (2 paragraphs)
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…fied when constrained by the artifice of property than they are without such a constraint (T 489); the interested "pa…
Spector 19983.2.2
T 3.2.2 (28 paragraphs)
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… 3.2.1 Book I's Conceptual Empiricism.............................................. 101 3.2.2 Bodily Continuity..…
3.2.2
T 3.2.2 (28 paragraphs)
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… ·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)
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… 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)
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… 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)
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…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)
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… in his struggle with the issue of personal identity with regard to thought. As we saw in 3.2.2, that question only…