A Treatise of Human Nature

A Treatise of Human Nature

Of the mixture of benevolence and anger with compassion and malice.

David Hume makes an argument about the change of passions and emotions that a human mind conveys when it meets different situations.

David Hume

The Mind is a Metaphor

1739

Riwayat Katia

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English

Argument

Philosophy, Human Minds, Passions and Emotions

When our fancy considers directly the sentiments of others, and enters deep into them, it makes us sensible of all the passions it surveys, but in a particular manner of grief or sorrow. On the contrary, when we compare the sentiments of others to our own, we feel a sensation directly opposite to the original one, a joy from the grief of others, and a grief from their joy.