A Treatise of Human Nature Book

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

Book 1: Of the Understanding

Book 1 part 1: The Elements of the Mental World

Book 1 Part 2: The Ideas of Space and Time

Book 1 Part 3: Knowledge, Probability, Belief, and Causation

Book 1 Part 4: Forms of Scepticism

Book 2: Of the passions

Book 2 Part 1: The Indirect Passions of Pride and Humility

Book 2 Part 2: The Indirect Passions of Love and Hatred

Book 2 part 3: The Direct Passions and the Will

Book 3: Of Morals

Book 3 Part 1: The Source of Moral Distinctions

Book 3 Part 2: The Artificial Virtues

Book 3 Part 3: Natural Virtues and Natural Abilities

The Abstract and the Early Reception of the Treatise

Supplementary Reading

A Note on the Texts of this Edition

PART 2: THE TEXT

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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 infinitedivisibility 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

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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 promises

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