Of The Passions, And Of Morals, By David Hume

“Of the Understanding”, “Of the Passions”, and “Of Morals” Book I, II and III of his “A treatise of Human Nature”, David Hume. He is born at Edinburgh in a good but not from a wealthy family on April 27, 1711. His father was died when he was still child, and he was brought up by his mother at the family estate of Ninewells. According to his Biography in the University of Edinburgh, he was at the University about 1723 “passed through the ordinary course of education with success”. After three years, he return to Ninewells with a small amount of knowledge in Greek and fair Knowledge in Latin and a taste in literary inclining to the books of reasoning and philosophy. Because of too ardent application his studies threatened his health. In 1734,

Hume have his premise that all of our knowledge is based on our experience and using it by examining other philosophical concepts. He first demonstrates that any complex ideas came up from simple ideas that formed to the impressions basis through our senses which concludes that ideas are not basically different from experiences. On his second demonstrations, he defines “matter of fact” as a matter that must be experienced which is not instinctually arrived or not reasoning out. In those two claims, Hume attacks the existence of God, Supreme Being, the divine creation and other such ideas. Since we are not even experience him, we don’t have the reason to believe to

He first did to distinguish himself between original and secondary impressions. Original impressions received through senses. It is comes from physical sources which internally affected like physical pleasures or pain. The secondary impressions are always after the original ideas or impressions. Hume state that passions are found through the realm of secondary impressions. Hume describes the passions as direct like desire, joy and other form and as indirect passions as hatred, pride and others. Between cause and object of the passions distinguishes it by Hume. Since moral decisions affect actions, while the reason’s decisions do not, thus, morality must not be based on reason. According to Hume, the beliefs about cause and effect are beliefs about the connections between object that we are experience. In relations to the beliefs, it can affect the actions only if objects related are some particular interest, and objects are interest only if it cause pleasure or pain. He concludes that pleasures and pain motivate us. He also says that we cannot claims actions are the effect of passions that either reasonable or unreasonable but meaningless. That is the feelings that activate actions. They may themselves be informed by reasoning, but reason is and should be the “slave” of