Hume on Art, Emotion, and Superstition

Book Launch Talk

Amyas Merivale

Oxford Hume Birthday Forum
Oxford, 7th May

Four Dissertations

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An Enquiry Concerning the Passions

Part I

1. My Design in the Present Work

2. Some Late Philosophers in England

3. Founded on Pain and Pleasure

4. A Considerable Adjustment

Part II

5. The Religious Passion

6. The First Religious Principles

7. The Object of the Passions

8. The Combat of Passion and Reason

9. The Causes of the Violent Passions

10. The Predominant Passion

11. The Sentiments of Beauty

12. The Laws of Criticism