In Praise of Self: Hume’s Love of Fame
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The interest in exploring fame and the love of it relates not only to Hume’s autobiography where he hypothesises the love of literary fame as a key spur to his work, but also to 2.1.11 in the Treatise where Hume offers an account of praise and our delight in it as part of his theory of the passions. It is in this section that Hume first introduces us to the wondrous mechanism of sympathy, a notion which does much work in the Book Three theory of morals. And, as I hope to show in ABSTRACT
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