 | David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...belief is almost absolutely requisite to the excitV ing our passions, so the passions, in their turn, are very favourable to belief; and not only such facts...pain, do upon that account become more readily the objectsof faith and opinion. A coward, whose fears are easily awakened, readily assents to every account... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...As belief is almost absolutely requisite to the exciting our passions, so the passions in their turn are very favourable to belief; and not only such facts...faith and opinion. A coward, whose fears are easily awaken'd, readily assents to every account of danger he meets with; as a person of a sorrowful and... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...As belief is almost absolutely requisite to the exciting our passions, so the passions in their turn are very favourable to belief; and not only such facts...faith and opinion. A coward, whose fears are easily awaken'd, readily assents to every account of danger he meets with; as a person of a sorrowful and... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1890 - 598 pages
...As belief is almost absolutely requisite to the exciting our passions, so the passions in their turn are very favourable to belief; and not only such facts...faith and opinion. A coward, whose fears are easily awaken'd, readily assents to every account of danger he meets with; as a person of a sorrowful and... | |
 | Thomas Vernor Smith, Marjorie Grene - Philosophy - 1957 - 384 pages
...As belief is almost absolutely requisite to the exciting our passions, so the passions in their turn are very favourable to belief; and not only such facts...faith and opinion. A coward, whose fears are easily awaken 'd, readily assents to every account of danger he meets with; as a person of a sorrowful and... | |
 | Jennifer A. Herdt - Philosophy - 1997 - 322 pages
..."as belief is almost absolutely requisite to the exciting our passions, so the passions in their turn are very favourable to belief; and not only such facts...become more readily the objects of faith and opinion" (7~12o). Having said this, Hume has a very difficult time denying that the vivacity of our passions... | |
 | Miguel A. Badía Cabrera - History - 2001 - 358 pages
...passions in their turn are very favourable to belief .... A coward, whose fears are easily awaken'd, readily assents to every account of danger he meets...every thing that nourishes his prevailing passion (THN, 120). Hence those powerful and "unaccountable terrors with regard to futurity" engender in the... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 2003 - 484 pages
...objects of faith and opinion. A coward, whose fears are easily awaken'd, readily assents to even'account of danger he meets with; as a person of a sorrowful...every thing, that nourishes his prevailing passion, \\Tien any affecting object is presented, it gives the alarm, and excites immediately a degree of its... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 2003 - 484 pages
...account become more readily the objects of faith and opinion. A coward, whose fears are easily awaken 'd, readily assents to every account of danger he meets...sorrowful and melancholy disposition is very credulous of even thing, that nourishes his prevailing passion. When any affecting object is presented, it gives... | |
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As belief is almost absolutely requisite to the exciting our passions, : so the passions, in their turn, are very favourable to belief; and not only such facts as convey agreeable emotions, but very often such as give pain, do upon that account become... 