“ Men always consider the sentiments of others in their judgment of themselves. ”
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1738). copy citation
| Author | David Hume |
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| Source | A Treatise of Human Nature |
| Topic | judgment sentiment |
| Date | 1738 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4705/4705-h/4705-h.htm |
Context
“We are ashamed of such maladies as affect others, and are either dangerous or disagreeable to them. Of the epilepsy; because it gives a horror to every one present: Of the itch; because it is infectious: Of the king's-evil; because it commonly goes to posterity. Men always consider the sentiments of others in their judgment of themselves. This has evidently appeared in some of the foregoing reasonings; and will appear still more evidently, and be more fully explained afterwards.
SECT. IX OF EXTERNAL ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
But though pride and humility have the qualities of our mind and body that is self, for their natural and more immediate causes, we find by experience, that there are many other objects, which produce these affections, and that the primary one is, in some measure, obscured and lost by the multiplicity of foreign and extrinsic.”
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