Summary
David Hume: On the Passions
According to Hume, the force that compels a person to act is passion, whether it is love, anger, pride, envy, fear or desire. Direct passions (and today we would say feelings) are, according to his theory of reason, impressions, not ideas, and they arise directly from good or evil, pleasure or pain. Indirect passions, pride, humiliation (or shame) arise in a more complex way, but still involve the experience of good or evil, pleasure or pain.
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