T 3.3.1.14
SBN 580-1 · cited directly by 3 papers, reached by 4 more through page or section ranges
Before I proceed farther, I must observe two remarkable circumstances in this affair, which may seem objections to the present system. The first may be thus explain'd. When any quality, or character, has a tendency to the good of mankind, we are pleas'd with it, and approve of it; because it presents the lively idea of pleasure; which idea affects us by sympathy, and is itself a kind of pleasure. But as this sympathy is very variable, it may be thought, that our senti|ments of morals must admit of all the same variations. We sympathize more with persons contiguous to us, than with persons remote from us: With our acquaintance, than with strangers: With our countrymen, than with foreigners. But notwithstanding this variation of our sympathy, we give the same approbation to the same moral qualities in China as in England. They appear equally virtuous, and recommend themselves equally to the esteem of a judicious spectator. The sympathy varies without a variation in our esteem. Our esteem, therefore, proceeds not from sympathy.
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| Ainslie 1995 | (T 580-81) T 3.3.1 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …icated passions are more strongly felt the stronger the relation between the communicants (T 580-81). Note that Hume's … |
| (T 580) T 3.3.1 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …or whom we are concern'd, who receives benefit from justice, but the whole society alike. (T 580) Of course, our dis… | |
| (T 581) T 3.3.1 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …Hume requires that we correct for the difference in the ease of sympathetic communication (T 581). This does not, how… | |
| (T 580) T 3.3.1 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ciety, rather than to those immediately harmed or benefitted by the character in question (T 580). - 13 The question… | |
| Ainslie 1999 | (T 575, 581, 582, 584, 592) T 3.3.1.3 to T 3.3.2.2 (14 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ntal qualities" (T 574, 575, 577, 578, 579, 58a, 587, 59 ~ 591, 598, 6o6, 618), "persons" (T 575, 581, 582, 584, 592), "acUons" (T 471, 4… |
| (T 581-582) T 3.3.1 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … I I in orde r to cor rec t for this di s tor t ion of our sympa t he t i c t endenc i es (T 581-582) . Given tha t Hume… | |
| Garral 2007 | (T 580) T 3.3.1 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …riability of sympathy when it comes to making moral judgments and fulfilling moral duties (T 580). In any event, a pr… |
| Loeb 2009 | (T pp. 581-2) T 3.3.1 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …uncorrected, sympathy-driven evaluation, we 'fix' on a 'steady and general' point of view (T pp. 581-2). The perspective of… |
| Greco 2015 | T 3.3.1.14 this paragraph Citation pattern | … we ourselves admire and respect, and the judgments expressed by a "judicious spectator" (T 3.3.1.14/SBN 581) pronouncin… |
| SBN 581-82 T 3.3.1 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …om the "steady and general," or "common," point of view of morality (T 3.3.1.15-16 and 30/SBN 581-82 and 591), we develo… | |
| Spector 1998 | 3.3.1 T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 3.3.1 The Fiction of Self… |
| 3.3.1 T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …vol. i, and it remained a standard thought experiment through the eighteenth century. See 3.3.1, for more on the Sh… | |
| 3.3.1 T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …about rights, justice and even personal identity, as we see with both Locke and Hume. See 3.3.1 note, for more on p… | |
| 3.3.1 T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ror made in the supposition of bodily continuity. ## 3.3 The Epistemological Problem ## 3.3.1 The Fiction of Self… | |
| 3.3.1 T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …. 252. !8l am grateful to Candace Vogler for prompting me to clarify the difference. See 3.3.1 for a discussion of… | |
| Ainslie 2003 | T 3.3.1 T 3.3.1 (32 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …es - qualities useful or agreeable to the trait's possessor or to those who surround her (T 3.3.1) - offer little hel… |