David Hume on desire
David Hume (1711–1776) approaches desire within Empiricism. Causal necessity is a learned expectation, the self is a bundle of perceptions, and moral approval rests in sentiment. Systematically, the teaching links causation, skepticism, sentiment into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets desire most directly—useful for searches such as “david hume quotes on desire.”
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