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Often appears with: vice as humility or hatred · pride, vanity, and humility · pleasure, pain, and the good life · pleasure and pain · justice as a virtue · durable principles of character · courage and cowardice
Usually: argument (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1)
In explaining natural virtues and vices, Hume proposes that pleasure and pain are the mind’s chief springs, and that virtue corresponds to qualities producing love or pride.
SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men. The examination of these will conclude this system of morals. The chief spring or actuating principle of the human mind is pleasure or pain; and when these sensations are removed, both from our thought and feeling, we …