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A Treatise Of Human Nature
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Hume differentiates between Direct Passions (e.g., desire, aversion, joy, grief), which arise immediately from pleasure or pain, and Indirect Passions (e.g., pride, humility, love, hatred), which are complex and often depend on relation or comparison [5].
The mechanism governing the indirect passions is governed by the Principle of Association, wherein ideas related by resemblance, contiguity, or causality become linked. For instance, pride arises when an idea related to the self (e.g., a possession or an accomplishmen…