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The self and the passions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Terence Penelhum
Terence Penelhum*
Affiliation:
Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary 2500 University Drive, Calgary, ABT2N 1N4, Canada
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*Email: penelhum@ucalgary.ca
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Abstract

Jane McIntyre's authoritative presentation of the changes Hume makes in the Second Enquiry and the Dissertation on the Passions to the role of sympathy show that he has there left behind the centrality of the idea of the self in the Treatise, and made his philosophy less systematic but more comprehensive.

Keywords

selfhumanity
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 42 , Issue S1: Hume in Alberta: Selected Papers from the 2012 Hume Conference in Calgary , February 2012 , pp. 204 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2012

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