A Progress of Sentiments

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Annette C. Baier is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Baier aims to make sense of Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume's family motto was "True to the End." Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about "truth and falsehood, reason and folly." By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work.

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Abbreviations Preface 1. Philosophy in This Careless Manner 2. Other Relations: The Account of Association 3. Customary Transitions from Causes to Effects 4. Necessity, Nature, Norms 5. The Simple Supposition of Continued Existence 6. Persons and the Wheel of Their Passions 7. The Direction of Our Conduct 8. The Contemplation of Character 9. A Catalogue of Virtues 10. The Laws of Nature 11. The Shelter of Governors 12. Reason and Reflection Chronology Notes Index