A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to introduce the experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects

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. 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 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