“ Our own virtues produce not first pride, and then love to a friend or brother ”
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1738). copy citation
| Author | David Hume |
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| Source | A Treatise of Human Nature |
| Topic | pride virtue |
| Date | 1738 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4705/4705-h/4705-h.htm |
Context
“Now since the fancy finds the same facility in passing from the lesser to the greater, as from remote to contiguous, why does not this easy transition of ideas assist the transition of passions in the former case, as well as in the latter? The virtues of a friend or brother produce first love, and then pride; because in that case the imagination passes from remote to contiguous, according to its propensity. Our own virtues produce not first pride, and then love to a friend or brother; because the passage in that case would be from contiguous to remote, contrary to its propensity. But the love or hatred of an inferior causes not readily any passion to the superior, though that be the natural propensity of the imagination:”
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