PART 1: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL How to Use this Book List of Abbreviations Editor's Introduction Hume's Early years and Education A Treatise of Human Nature The Experimental Method and the Science of Human Nature Book 1: Of the Understanding Book 1 part 1: The Elements of the Mental World Perceptions Relations Abstract Ideas Book 1 Part 2: The Ideas of Space and Time Book 1 Part 3: Knowledge, Probability, Belief, and Causation Relations Revisited The Relation of Causation Causes and Causal Reasoning Experience and Belief Belief in the Uniformity of Nature The Idea of Necessary Connection Book 1 Part 4: Forms of Scepticism External Objects Enduring Selves and Personal Identity The Conclusion of Book 1 Book 2: Of the passions The Productive Passions The Responsive Passions Book 2 Part 1: The Indirect Passions of Pride and Humility The 'very essence' of Virtue and Beauty Unexercised Powers Sympathy Book 2 Part 2: The Indirect Passions of Love and Hatred Passions and the Principles of Association The Compound Passions Passions and Relations Dispositions Book 2 part 3: The Direct Passions and the Will The Will and its Influences The Direct Passions Book 3: Of Morals Book 3 Part 1: The Source of Moral Distinctions The Failure of Reason Moral Sentiments Book 3 Part 2: The Artificial Virtues Motives and Moral Qualities Justice Additional Artificial Virtues Book 3 Part 3: Natural Virtues and Natural Abilities Natural Virtues Natural Abilities The Conclusion of Book 3 The Abstract and the Early Reception of the Treatise Supplementary Reading A Note on the Texts of this Edition PART 2: THE TEXT Advertisement Introduction Book 1: Of the Understanding Part 1: Of ideas, their origin, composition, connexion, abstraction, etc. Sect. 1: Of the origin of our ideas Sect. 2: Division of the subject Sect. 3: Of the ideas of the memory and imagination Sect. 4: Of the connexion of association of ideas Sect. 5. Of relations Sect. 6 Of modes and substances Sect. 7: Of abstract ideas Part 2: Of ideas of space and time Sect. 1: Of the infinite divisibility of our ideas of space and time Sect. 2: Of the infinite divisibility of space and time Sect. 3. Of the other qualities of our ideas of space and time Sect. 4. Objections answered Sect. 5: The same subject continued Sect. 6: Of the idea of existence and of external existence Part 3: of knowledge and probability Sect. 1: Of knowledge Sect. 2. Of probability; and of the idea of cause and effect Sect. 3: Why a cause is always necessary Sect. 4: Of the component parts of our reasonings concerning cause and effect Sect. 5: Of the impressions of the senses and memory Section. 6: Of the inference from the impression to the idea Sect. 7: Of the nature of the idea or belief Sect. 8: Of the causes of belief Sect. 9: Of the effects of other relations and other habits Sect 10. Of the influence of belief Sect. 11: Of the probability of chances Sect. 12: Of the probability of causes Sect. 13: Of unphilosophical probability Sect. 14: Of the idea of necessary connexion Sect. 15: Rules by which to judge of causes and effects Sect. 16: Of the reason of animals Part 4: Of the sceptical and other systems of philosophy Sect. 1: Of scepticism with regard to reason Sect. 2: Of scepticism with regard to the senses Sect. 3. Of the ancient philosophy Sect 4. Of the modern philosophy Sect. 5: Of the immateriality of the soul Sect. 6: Of personal identity Sect. 7: Conclusion of this book Book 2: Of the Passions Part 1: Of pride and humility Sect. 1: Division of the subject Sect. 2: Of pride and humility; their objects and causes Sect. 3: Whence these objects and causes are derived Sect. 4: Of the relations of impressions and ideas Sect. 5: Of the influence of these relations on pride and humility Sect. 6: Limitations of this system Sect. 7: Of vice and virtue Sect. 8: Of beauty and deformity Sect. 9: Of external advantages and disadvantages Sect. 10: Of property and riches Sect. 11: Of the love of fame Sect. 12: Of the pride and humility of animals Part 2: Of love and hatred Sect. 1: Of the objects and causes of love and hatred Sect. 2: Experiments to confirm this system Sect. 3: Difficulties solved Sect. 4: Of the love of relations Sect. 5: Of our esteem for the rich and powerful Sect 6: Of benevolence and anger Sect. 7: Of compassion Sect. 8: Of malice and envy Sect. 9: Of the mixture of benevolence and anger with compassion and malice Sect. 10. Of respect and contempt Sect. 11: Of the amorous passion, or love betwixt the sexes Sect. 12: Of the love and hatred of animals Part 3: Of the will and direct passions Sect. 1: Of liberty and necessity Sect. 2: The same subject continued Sect. 3: Of the influencing motives of the will Sect. 4: Of the causes of the violent passions Sect. 5: Of the effects of custom Sect. Of the influence of the imagination on passions Sect. 7: Of contiguity and distance in space and time Sect. 8: The same subject continued Sect. 9: Of the direct passions Sect. 10: Of curiosity, or the love of truth Book 3: Of Morals Advertisement Part 1: Of virtue and vice in general Sect. 1: Moral distinctions not derived from reason Sect. 2: Moral distinctions derived from a moral sense Part 2: Of justice and injustice Sect. 1: Justice, whether a natural or artificial virtue? Sect. 2: Of the origin of justice and property Sect. 3: Of the rules, which determine property Sect. 4: Of the transference of property by consent Sect. 5: Of the obligation of Hume conference flyer, Cambridge Sept 00 AP 14/10/00 Sect. 6: Some farther reflections concerning justice and injustice Sect. 7: Of the origin of government Sect. 8: Of the source of allegiance Sect. 9: Of the measures of allegiance Sect. 10: Of the objects of allegiance Sect. 11: Of the laws of nations Sect. 12: Of chastity and modesty Part 3: Of the other virtues and vices Sect. 1: Of the origin of the natural virtues and vices Sect. 2: Of greatness of mind Sect. 3. Of goodness and benevolence Sect. 4: Of natural abilities Sect. 5: Some farther reflections concerning the natural virtues Sect. 6: Conclusion of this book Appendix An Abstract of ... A Treatise of Human Nature PART 3 SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL Editors' Annotations Annotations to the Treatise Annotations to the Abstract Glossary References Index

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