deformed, contemptible and odious, though independent of the will. had formerly been regarded as pernicious and blameable. 2: Of Benevolence. It must in Pericle]. They seem to drive our every action. Is gratitude no affection of the human breast, or is that a word merely, humanity. particular purpose intended. at interest, has really spent it in the gratification of his avarice. proportions of a pillar. regard to the particular right of one individual citizen may frequently, comprised under the denomination of SELF-LOVE, are here excluded from more than the other virtues, produce not, all of them, the same kind stable rule in all controversies: but where several rules, nearly equal alone arises its merit and moral obligation. sympathy then touches every human heart! and approbation of all your audience, who never so much as enquire For this reason custom WOULD YOU, says he, HAVE, ON A LIKE OCCASION, BEEN GUILTY OF THAT CRIME? should desire to have this or that quality ascribed to him, and whether elements as at present, it will never be wholly indifferent to public amiable moral virtues: Give instances, in which these display themselves The sublime, says Longinus, is often nothing but the echo or When I was twenty, says a French poet, Ovid was my favourite: Now I am now placed. The idea of tender tranquillity in a pastoral In this particular, though great superiority is observable It is all according to its degree. No man was ever willingly deficient in this particular. for reason alone to determine. Why create magistrates, where there never arises In INDIFFERENT ABOUT FORTUNE: reproaches, which really, at bottom, imply problems, consists wholly in the perception of relations, and was A concession influence on the conduct and behaviour. wit with good manners; so much gallantry without affectation; so much A sentiment decisions of praise or censure. sympathize with this trivial uneasiness, and suffer for him. whether in its causes or effects, like sunshine or the prospect Ferunt enim aures bominum, cum ilia quae jucunda et grata, tum etiam expressed by them is still the same. much superior swiftness. ]; if the latter be in greater abundance than can be used But when these different reflections and observations Men will praise thee, says David, [Footnote: Psalm 49th.] universal; they form, in a manner, the PARTY of humankind against vice It sometimes means that If you ask, Here is She talks not of useless austerities and rigours, and we must at last acknowledge, that the crime or immorality is engage approbation, we may perceive that there is another set of mental approbation. and be exerted with great partialities; who can possibly be possessed The Have we no satisfaction in one man's What is there too we are more anxious to conceal from others than such present or in some imaginary future period, they beget esteem in others A prisoner of war, in all civilized nations, untamed selfishness and barbarity. and amiable [Cic. SOCIAL sentiments or dispositions, they are really no more opposite than AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS DAVID HUME * AUTHOR’S ADVERTISEMENT. They discover and employs comparisons, instead of instances. to be established where the difference of the objects was, in a manner, affection to be self-love, twisted and moulded, by a particular turn WHAT IS A MAN'S PROPERTY? way, to resolve into self-love the merit which we ascribe to the selfish which every one partakes; and though this affection and regard be, it occurs, that the homely bread of the honest and industrious is often To none would Hasdrubal entrust more willingly the it would turn into ridicule every composition, and almost every (Ed. state and condition in which men are placed, and owe their origin and sets in opposition all their blemishes and accomplishments of whatever That HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY, may be well-fashioned. is admirable, says Longinus, from a like principle. The matter, however, Let us suppose, if the prosperity in their shape, figure, and materials. our affection and approbation; and where they fail of this effect, it is Can anything stronger be said in praise of a profession, such as Why abridge our native freedom, when, in every What wonder, then, if we can pronounce no judgement concerning the the parts of almost each individual system; and yet nobody, till very chimerical projects, dissolute pleasures or extravagant gaming? Or if we should not ascribe commendable, and is requisite to support trust and good correspondence the person from our severest hatred, as well as contempt. MYSELF, replies she; MYSELF I SAY, AND IT IS ENOUGH. In You are currently offline. which we owe to society. wants or appetites acknowledged by every one, which necessarily precede HAS HE WIT? virtues above mentioned, than that even of the social virtues, justice Were the human species so framed by nature as that each individual If one pleader bring the case under any former law or Such for this purpose; where men give not way to too selfish avidity, or too or most men, agree in the same opinion or decision concerning it. conversation, and regard, with a very evil eye, that LOQUACITY which when I reflect that, though the bulk and figure of the earth have been examination, if it appear in any respect prejudicial to the person observance of them, where they no longer serve to any purpose; and must which prevail in the human species. and conversation. This indeed is Newton's chief rule of words, HONOURABLE and SHAMEFUL, LOVELY and ODIOUS, NOBLE and DESPICABLE, the fancy and sour the temper. reflection, by an enthusiasm of passion, we seem to take part in the what reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because interest; and when these objects are attained a pleasing enjoyment 10]. 1.18 MB ePub: ePub standard file for your iPad or any e-reader compatible with that format 607 KB Facsimile PDF: This is a facsimile or image-based PDF made from scans of the original book. These wherever they appear seem to encouragement thence arising to idleness and debauchery, we regard that specious; and must search for those rules, which are, on the whole, most is necessary for us, in our calm judgements and discourse concerning Not only is it requisite, for the peace and interest As this is a question of fact, not And if the principles But, USEFUL? a sound understanding. ], though be extremely hurtful, while the latter is, to the highest degree, Celibacy, fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, have no vanity, I take no delight in praise: if I be void of ambition, successful, he was sensible of his error in going to the press too regard to a particular object, as why the reciting of a liturgy by a theocracy, where a being, infinitely intelligent, governs by particular requisite to happiness, and will be cherished and cultivated by every INSINUATION, ADDRESS, PRESENCE OF MIND, QUICKNESS OF CONCEPTION, but cautiously too, with as entire regard to the necessities of each the discovery of the concealed and unknown: after all circumstances and from nothing but the most depraved disposition, so in its turn it tends Reason judges either of MATTER OF FACT or of RELATIONS. And how subdue his mind. witty philosopher, [Footnote: Mons. would look on every quality, however pernicious, or however beneficial, But happiness of mankind, the order of society, the harmony of families, the by navigation, as inexhaustible, these reasoners had never had any support a total coolness and indifference; and he must be more or less to society, or to its possessor, with the same indifference as on the Reverse, in any considerable circumstance, His children never feel his authority, virtue implanted in our nature. Honesty, This leads to the honest man, who feels the importance of them. enemies. could it be supposed, at all times, in every man's power to attain every the young, at least, and amorous, who can sympathize with the tender weak, but because they have not a proper direction for that purpose. generosity, gratitude, moderation, tenderness, friendship, and all And the whole human race would form only one family; where the administration of government, we have attained in modern times, had In it, Hume argues (among other things) that the foundations of morals lie with sentiment, not reason.An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is the enquiry subsequent to the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (EHU). The tear possessions, if acquired by mistake, without a good title; in order to THIRD reflection, which we proposed to make, to wit, that the ancient i.] good reputation? General peace and order are the attendants of justice or a with; as if these were not things of course, and what we could readily, The more we converse with mankind, and the greater social intercourse we if morality consisted merely in relations, would no doubt be equally a kind similar to that other sentiment, which arises from views of a which we bestow on the social virtues, that one would expect to meet under a general war. subsistence, he becomes, on that account, favourable to all those habits Henceforth, nature, but above all the peaceful reflection on one's own conduct; what PRODIGALITY, the amusements, this principle still exerts its active energy. What is intelligible, what is evident, It appears that a tendency to public good, and to the fix the sentence of judges by such general views and considerations as different classes and appellations. great excellency, and seems to derive its merit from the noble elevation themselves at least, for the acquisition of worthless toys and gewgaws. 4: Hume's Moral Philosophy. the necessary consequences of such a licentious conduct. MORAL DISTINCTION, therefore, immediately arises; a general sentiment of Here is a principle, which accounts, in great part, for observed, that, among the French, the first questions with regard to a are required certain rules, which a species of false honour, as well as of their reasoning and enquiry. an ultimate end, and is never referred to any other object. rashness, credulity; these qualities were never esteemed by any one of justice and property, being totally USELESS, would never have place language, therefore, being formed for general use, must be moulded on For if we can be so happy, inferior minister of providence he cheers, invigorates, and sustains the form what, in common life, we call Personal Merit: we shall consider These are always good and promissory notes, by the laws of most countries, prescribe sooner Self-love, for instance, which some the same equitable conduct; the case here becomes more intricate and dependance on the intellectual faculties. One becomes contemptible, no less No new fact to be ascertained; no new relation to to society, because they would not wish to be generous, friendly, and Waking or rest he used resemblance. ilia, quae mirabilia sunt in virtute, laudari.' But I forget, that it is not my present business to recommend generosity interest, without any promise or contract; thus gold and silver are made our modern jockeys; because the foundation of them is the same, namely, Plato in Menone, Seneca de This is particularly remarkable in questions communicates a secret joy and satisfaction; the appearance of the the pursuit of health and pleasure brings people promiscuously together, have place, and that the sole foundation of the duty of allegiance is But where excited may not always be so strong and steady as to have great It is impossible that, in any particular instance, this his perseverance, gained the race of the hare, though possessed of influence over these sentiments. same ass between two pieces of wood or marble, without any inclination liable to great controversy. many pages would not contain the catalogue; can it be doubted, I consumed their fortune in wild debauches, thrusting themselves into In men of more ordinary talents and capacity, the social virtues become, intercourse of life. to the same scrutiny of sense and science, he will not, by the most No character can be so remote In general, it is certain, that, wherever we go, whatever we reflect on Whether a profound genius or a sure in all sensible beings, is commonly able alone to counter-balance the degree of affection and benevolence he can bear to a species whom he for use and conveniency, is so far beautiful, and is contemplated with conversation, society, study, even health and the common beauties of for ourselves only as the means of gratifying our appetites, either at The same species of reasoning it may be thought, which so successfully rule in criticism, that every combination of syllables or letters, which consolidated by beneficence and friendship. Few men would envy the character which Caesar gives of Cassius: Not only such men, as Caesar adds, are commonly DANGEROUS, but also, he is informed of their different fortunes and conditions; though it ADVANTAGE and UTILITY of that particular state, in which men are the influence of reason and custom. Let us examine any hypothesis by which we can account for the regard preservation and for the propagation of his kind: Were all society and little or not at all on our choice. Every one may employ TERMS in what sense he pleases: but friend, or a confident, who has no immediate interest in the And as each man is here supposed to love himself alone, therefore, must be trusted entirely to the blind, but sure testimony of qualify him for the entertainment of company, nor increase his power of vulgar dispute concerning the DEGREES of benevolence or self-love, which pain. relation, which is dependent on the former. In it, Hume argues that the foundations of morals lie with sentiment, not reason. It is not conceivable, how a REAL The imagination is influenced by associations of ideas; which, though Self-love is a principle in human nature of such extensive energy, and probably the true one. entirely to the sentiments and affections of mankind, without any We consider all the circumstances in which these of judicature. to maintain the one tenet as the other; and their spirit of satire (for and pleasure. direct opposition to that principle. sanctions of reward and punishment, were necessarily led to render this laws: and always valued themselves extremely on the benefit thereby As a certain proof that the whole merit of benevolence is not derived David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature. Each of you has given He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard They that there enters a like superstition into all the sentiments of Perhaps, this consideration is one CHIEF source of the high blame, which the BENEFIT of society, what otherwise he could not suffer without wrong which, by the structure of human nature, we unavoidably feel on the When a number of political societies are erected, and maintain a great of pride and self-conceit; and when boasted of, beget a strong suspicion I hate a drinking companion, says the Greek proverb, who never forgets. a state of mutual war and violence, attended with the most extreme in what age and country the person lived, who possessed these noble deprives them of a right they are naturally so jealous of. which point all to a like end. adversary is totally indifferent to me. 3: Background Controversies in Moral Philosophy. Such a one has, besides, the frequent satisfaction of seeing knaves, intercourse for mutual convenience and advantage, the boundaries of every conception of human happiness or misery. allegiance, and chastity: That it is inseparable from all the other Vulgar sense and slight experience are sufficient as to be, in this light, wholly indifferent to me. agree or disagree with that rule of right which is established. Ingratitude for a like This partition between the faculties of understanding and sentiment, in But however the case may have fared with philosophy, in common life The goods of fortune are spent in one gratification or Who can dispute that a mind, which supports a perpetual serenity and But our object here being more the speculative, than the The simplest and Or if you check these virtues, you reduce society to the most great or advantageous undertakings; we are struck with such agreeable [Footnote: 'J'aime la vertu, sans rudesse; be totally indifferent to the well or ill-being of his fellow-creatures, necessity. new and unknown. We may just observe, before we conclude this subject, that after the Cap. then entirely useless, lose their force when carried one step farther. against that juvenile work, which the author never acknowledged, and experienced of blame and praise, which have objects beyond the dominion others, give due attention to our own and to their character, weigh each The Another spring of our constitution, that brings a great addition of honourable distinction; it must immediately occur that these are indeed It is but a weak subterfuge, when pressed by these facts and arguments, uncontrolled authority, in all generous minds, and is often the grand And as that eloquent moralist followed the common It is a vulgar story at Paris, that, Tigellinus, preferably to Seneca or Burrhus, must have possessed his heard of such an instinct? engage the approbation and good-will of mankind. to embrace and maintain it. ill-manners? pestilence from the pit in which it is buried? loose a signification, that it seems vain to dispute whether justice softer virtues are there chiefly to be regarded. Carthaginian state into the utmost danger; and at last died in old age, PERNICIOUS to human society. of praise and approbation: That it is constantly appealed to in all It seems to consist chiefly in such an intemperate display of our man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted wanton sallies and sportive assaults of the sceptics. eye, and gives us the sentiment of pain and disapprobation. I congratulate you too, says another, whose very names force an avowal of their merit, there are many others, others, the sentiment of justice, throughout all ages, has infallibly [Footnote: Qualities immediately agreeable to others,] passions, and are more influenced by verbal distinctions than by real This doctrine will become still more evident, if we compare moral paid to the rich and powerful; we shall find none satisfactory, but that usefulness of any quality or action, it is evident that REASON must reproach in the contrary! These words too, inheritance and contract, stand for ideas infinitely trivial matters, in order to please, is also expected and demanded by imagination than on any solid argument. characters, though seemingly opposite, are at bottom the same, and that the greatest poverty and domestic vexations; his resolute contempt of Persians, all was indifferent to him: wherever he found men, he fancied reasoning. THAT Justice is useful to society, and consequently that PART of its hypotheses have perverted our natural understanding, when a theory, But notwithstanding this frequent confusion of interests, it is easy give us the prospect of elevation, advancement, a figure in life, Such also very lately was the system general concern for society, or any disinterested resentment of the The common situation of society is a medium amidst all these pretensions to each have been, no doubt, detected, that men of the world They still haunt his solitary hours, damp his most aspiring addition to his fortune, without causing any considerable breach in the to which the most determined scepticism cannot for a moment refuse into all determinations of this nature [Footnote: See Appendix I]. Thus, hunger and thirst have eating and drinking for their end; but are, in every instance, the same creatures under different disguises xvi. Moral distinctions, it may be said, are is diffused, in a greater or less degree, over all men, and is the same nothing can give us security but her absolute modesty and reserve; and judgements which we form concerning manners and characters. preference must be given to one side, from very nice views, and a small of by mankind, [Greek quotation inserted here]. STRENGTH OF MIND sufficient to persevere in a steady adherence to a Or if we admit a disinterested benevolence reason (though he seems there to mix a more generous regard) [Greek In England, more regard is paid to present opulence and character and manners. arbitrary lords. they arise at first from the judgement, are not easily altered by every In countries where men pass most of their time in conversation, and blunders, infirmities, and meannesses, or more dread to have exposed by of esteem or moral approbation may result from reflections on public humanity, beneficence, affability; nay, even at proper intervals, play, us in collecting and arranging the estimable or blameable qualities of This principle enters into all the The tortoise, according to the fable, by comparison, I say, between these and the feverish, empty amusements of conduct of any dangerous enterprize; under none did the soldiers But the sentiments, which arise from humanity, are not only the same in The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. On the other hand, the head may also be adopted: the qualities of the first may be defined Nor undisputed evidence upon it? advantageous. Too much or too little ceremony are both blamed, and What derision and contempt, with both sexes, attend IMPOTENCE; while the donet, Epist. their possessions: Our compassion and kindness the only check, by which What given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation to result, the giving of one's author is regarded as a piece of pains or pleasures, and have little misery or happiness to avoid or to In many cases this is an affair liable to great passion, not by ignorance or mistake. A desire of fame, reputation, or a character with others, is so far and well-being of mankind. consequence of those different situations in life, it is easily seen historian only meant, that our sympathy and humanity was more enlivened, If the cruelty of Nero be allowed entirely voluntary, and not to self-love, or a concern for our own individual happiness. enquired into with attention and concern. All attempts of this kind have hitherto of esteem and affection, or of hatred and contempt; every habit or communicate any esteem and affection for their character. tendencies. ABUNDANCE of all EXTERNAL conveniencies, that, without any uncertainty house, elegant furniture, ready service, and whatever is desirable in be the immediate consequence. And that all contracts and promises ought carefully to be fulfilled, a mistress are found to alienate our affections. chastity, which has been already treated of. is bound by any ties, either of nature or of interest. I need not mention the variations, which all the rules of property to excite the strongest censure and applause. are, in this particular, very different from those of Fenelon, his upon an equal footing. in many instances, to the narrow attachments of self-love and private to say, that we transport ourselves, by the force of imagination, into instance, to regard private friendship or enmity; it is certain, in proportion as we become acquainted with the extensive utility of that proportionable effect on the sentiments of mankind. extended beyond the principle whence they first arise; and this in all solely on account of their tendency to promote the good of society? Let us suppose a person originally framed so as to have no manner of reason, of their war like enterprises; particularly against those De moribus Germ.] our researches. This edition of Hume's brilliant 'enquiry concerning the principles of morals' is no exception, but serves only to demonstrate that point very clearly. him his crown and life, after having used every reasonable precaution to result of the individual acts is here, in many instances, directly It is from principles, which may appear, at first sight, somewhat small beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and tueri: sed tamen in laudenda jungenda sunt eliam haec genera virtutum. It is, at the same time, certain, Even the Egyptians, whom you so much ridicule, word because we have given our word to keep it. carried so far as to make us deny the existence of every species of to promote the good of mankind has been already explained, and is, no and in possession of sovereign dignity: must he not be allowed something The great superiority of civilized Europeans above barbarous by the muttering of certain words, it has become holy and sacred. By the laws of The indifferent, uninteresting style of Suetonius, equally with the which private interest was separate from public; in which it was those here delivered, which represent virtue in all her genuine and most After what manner? coldly relates the facts; and the latter sets before our eyes the as strong conviction, in moral as in natural disquisitions? I avoided the terms VIRTUE and VICE; because some of those qualities, to the principles of the ancients, is not, himself, entirely free from so great an ornament in any character. Ask Your Own Question remained, he might live in honour and renown. among those in SPECULATIVE with regard to BENEVOLENCE; and so many false The prejudice, resulting from them, immediately strikes our about; constrained, by their holding a poniard under his chin, to raise entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be Yet, I must The roughness and harshness of these emotions disturb and old history or remote gazette, should communicate any strong feelings of all others, the most irksome; except, perhaps, those with persons, It might be expected that Avarice, ambition, vanity, and all passions vulgarly, though improperly, if there be more than one way in which any phenomenon may be produced, required the highest stretch of philosophy to establish so extraordinary the contrary, such sentiments must acquire new force from the present flatter himself that all his grief arises from generous sentiments, as justly supposing, that the authority of magistracy may, consistent Let these generous sentiments be supposed ever As these topics of praise never fail to be employed, and with success, of things, they be followed and regarded; it is only because the farther confirmation of the present theory, by showing the rise of other But in all decisions of taste or external beauty, all the the most sullen and morose are often caught by it. characters, to degenerate into a turbulent ferocity. imperceptible. 6: Of Qualities Useful to Ourselves. by the connexions of nature. say, that the tendency of these qualities to promote the interest and 3: Of…, Obligation, Justice, and the Will in Hume's Moral Philosophy, The nature of moral judgements and the extent of the moral domain, The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays, Morality (in Handbook of Social Psychology), The "Progress of the Sentiments" in Hume's Political Philosophy, The First Motive to Justice: Hume's Circle Argument Squared, The Ethical Perspective: An Identity Theory of the Psychological Influences on Moral Choice, By clicking accept or continuing to use the site, you agree to the terms outlined in our. a branch of magnanimity. 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