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A Treatise of Human Nature

by David Hume (1711–1776)

60 chapters, about 212,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. ADVERTISEMENT. 100 words
3. INTRODUCTION. 1,900 words
4. SECT. I. OF THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS. 1,500 words
5. SECT. II. DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT. 2,000 words
6. SECT. V. OF RELATIONS. 700 words
7. SECT. VI. OF MODES AND SUBSTANCES 500 words
8. SECT. VII. OF ABSTRACT IDEAS. 3,100 words
9. PART II. OF THE IDEAS OF SPACE AND TIME. 4,000 words
10. SECT. IV. OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. 5,300 words
11. SECT. V. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. 5,300 words
12. SECT. I. OF KNOWLEDGE. 3,000 words
13. SECT. III. WHY A CAUSE IS ALWAYS NECESSARY. 7,000 words
14. SECT. VIII. OF THE CAUSES OF BELIEF. 7,100 words
15. SECT. X. OF THE INFLUENCE OF BELIEF. 2,700 words
16. SECT. XI. OF THE PROBABILITY OF CHANCES. 2,300 words
17. SECT. XII. OF THE PROBABILITY OF CAUSES. 4,400 words
18. SECT. XIII. OF UNPHILOSOPHICAL PROBABILITY. 3,900 words
19. SECT. XIV. OF THE IDEA OF NECESSARY CONNEXION. 6,200 words
20. SECT. XVI OF THE REASON OF ANIMALS 1,100 words
21. SECT. I. OF SCEPTICISM WITH REGARD TO REASON. 12,700 words
22. SECT. III. OF THE ANTIENT PHILOSOPHY. 2,000 words
23. SECT. IV. OF THE MODERN PHILOSOPHY. 2,200 words
24. SECT. V. OF THE IMMATERIALITY OF THE SOUL. 5,900 words
25. SECT. VI. OF PERSONAL IDENTITY 4,100 words
26. SECT. VII. CONCLUSION OF THIS BOOK. 3,600 words
27. SECT. I DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT 4,900 words
28. SECT. VI LIMITATIONS OF THIS SYSTEM 1,200 words
29. SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE 1,200 words
30. SECT. VIII OF BEAUTY AND DEFORMITY 1,800 words
31. SECT. IX OF EXTERNAL ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES 2,300 words
32. SECT. X OF PROPERTY AND RICHES 2,100 words
33. SECT. XI OF THE LOVE OF FAME 3,400 words
34. PART II OF LOVE AND HATRED 1,200 words
35. SECT. II EXPERIMENTS TO CONFIRM THIS SYSTEM 5,400 words
36. SECT. III DIFFICULTIES SOLVED 1,400 words
37. SECT. IV OF THE LOVE OF RELATIONS 5,100 words
38. SECT. VI OF BENEVOLENCE AND ANGER 900 words
39. SECT. VII OF COMPASSION 1,100 words
40. SECT. VIII OF MALICE AND ENVY 5,900 words
41. SECT. X OF RESPECT AND CONTEMPT 3,100 words
42. SECT. I OF LIBERTY AND NECESSITY 7,900 words
43. SECT. V OF THE EFFECTS OF CUSTOM 5,200 words
44. SECT. IX OF THE DIRECT PASSIONS 5,400 words
45. SECT. I MORAL DISTINCTIONS NOT DERIVED FROM REASON 7,000 words
46. PART II OF JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE 8,700 words
47. SECT. III OF THE RULES WHICH DETERMINE PROPERTY 5,900 words
48. SECT. V OF THE OBLIGATION OF PROMISES 6,300 words
49. SECT. VII OF THE ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT 1,800 words
50. SECT. VIII OF THE SOURCE OF ALLEGIANCE 3,500 words
51. SECT. IX OF THE MEASURES OF ALLEGIANCE 1,400 words
52. SECT. X OF THE OBJECTS OF ALLEGIANCE 4,500 words
53. SECT. XI OF THE LAWS OF NATIONS 900 words
54. SECT. XII OF CHASTITY AND MODESTY 1,300 words
55. PART III OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES 6,000 words
56. SECT. II OF GREATNESS OF MIND 3,000 words
57. SECT. III OF GOODNESS AND BENEVOLENCE 1,500 words
58. SECT. IV OF NATURAL ABILITIES 3,500 words
59. SECT. VI CONCLUSION OF THIS BOOK 1,200 words
60. APPENDIX 2,700 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• A
• Beauty
• Efficiency
• Envy
• Extension (metaphysics)
• Generosity
• Hatred
• Human nature
• Humility
• Identity (social science)
• Intention
• Liberty
• Object (grammar)
• Obligation
• Passion (emotion)
• Passions (philosophy)
• Personal identity
• Pity
• Positive law
• Property
• Quality (philosophy)
• Reason
• Relation (mathematics)
• Relation (philosophy)
• Skepticism
• Sympathy
• Time
• Vice

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