 | Robert Kane - 1985 - 244 หน้า
...Treatise (60, p. 411): "Where [actions] proceed not from some cause in the characters and dispositions of the person who performed them, they . . . can neither redound to his honor, if good, nor infamy, if evil. . . . the person is not responsible for [the action] ... as it... | |
 | David Hume - 1750 - 272 หน้า
...where they proceed not from fome Cattfe in the Characters and Difpoficion of the Perfon, who perform'd them, they can neither redound to his Honour, if good, nor Infamy, if evil. The Actions themfelves may be blameable ; they may be contrary to all the Rules of Morality and Religion... | |
 | John Kekes - 1990 - 268 หน้า
...character is primary, and action, being a consequence of character, is secondary. As Hume put the point, "Actions are by their very nature temporary and perishing;...in the character and disposition of the person, who perform'd them, they infix not themselves upon him, and can neither redound to his honour, if good,... | |
 | Owen Flanagan, Amelie Oksenberg Rorty - 1993 - 508 หน้า
...insists that actions are, "by their very nature, temporary and perishing" and that unless they flow from "some cause in the character and disposition...they can neither redound to his honour if good, nor to his infamy, if evil" (Hume 1975a, 98). A somewhat narrower sense of "character" figures in some... | |
 | Jan Arthur Cover - 1990 - 360 หน้า
...recapitulates his earlier account of causal necessity. Voluntary actions, he there writes, proceed from "some cause in the character and disposition of the person who performed them" (T 41 1) in the same contingently regular predictable way that other natural effects follow their causes.... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 448 หน้า
...injurious actions excite that passion, it is only by their relation to the person, or connection with him. Actions are, by their very nature, temporary and perishing...to his honour, if good ; nor infamy, if evil. The actions themselves may be blameable; they may be contrary to all the rules of morality and religion... | |
 | Eugene Schlossberger - 2010 - 268 หน้า
...blameable, without some motives or impelling passions, distinct from the sense of morals" (Ibid., p. 483). "Actions are, by their very nature, temporary and...who performed them, they can neither redound to his honor, if good; nor infamy, if evil. [A] person is not answerable for [immoral deeds if] they proceeded... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - 170 หน้า
...injurious actions excite that passion, it is only by their relation to the person, or connexion with him. Actions are, by their very nature, temporary and perishing;...redound to his honour, if good; nor infamy, if evil. The actions themselves may be blameable; they may be contrary to all the rules of morality and religion:... | |
 | Paul Russell - 2002 - 213 หน้า
...the other. His actions, being uncaused, would be outside his control. As Hume puts it, where actions "proceed not from some cause in the character and...redound to his honour, if good, nor infamy, if evil" (EU, 98). For the libertarian, therefore, there is a serious difficulty in giving a plausible account... | |
 | Paul Russell - 2002 - 218 หน้า
...appears in the important passage in the Treatise near the end of his discussion of liberty and necessity. Actions are by their very nature temporary and perishing;...in the character and disposition of the person, who perform 'd them, they infix not themselves upon him, and can neither redound to his honour, if good,... | |
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Actions are, by their very nature, temporary and perishing; and where they proceed not from some cause in the character and disposition of the person who performed them, they can neither redound to his honour, if good; nor infamy, if evil. 
