 | Everett Zimmerman - English fiction - 1996 - 268 pages
...documents, able to criticize them, yet also inside the represented actors, able to understand them: "It is universally acknowledged that there is a great...still the same, in its principles and operations. . . . Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Romans? Study... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 pages
...same bundle of potentialities. "It is universally acknowledged," David Hume wrote in a famous passage, "that there is a great uniformity among the actions...principles and operations. The same motives always 3 Quoted in Bryson: Man and Society, 21. *For the use of psychology in the philosophes' attack on Christianity,... | |
 | Martin Hollis - Philosophy - 1996 - 300 pages
...for instance, is Hume. 'It is universally acknowledged', he observed in the passage quoted earlier, 'that there is a great uniformity among the actions...still the same, in its principles and operations.' He continues: Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 566 pages
...So, the question before us is whether, and to what extent, such necessity pertains to human actions. It is universally acknowledged, that there is a great...The same motives always produce the same actions. Consequently, there does appear to be a high degree of constant conjunction experienced. Indeed, this... | |
 | Don Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Utah - Philosophy - 1996 - 289 pages
...necessity, and that they have hitherto disputed, merely for not understanding each other, (from 1) 3. It is universally acknowledged that there is a great...still the same, in its principles and operations. 4. Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or... | |
 | Jennifer A. Herdt - Philosophy - 1997 - 322 pages
...apparent differences. This is equally true of the oft-cited passage from the Enquiry, where Hume claims that "there is a great uniformity among the actions...remains still the same, in its principles and operations . . . Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Romans? Study... | |
 | Martin Hollis - Philosophy - 1998 - 184 pages
...in lapidary mood, as he gazes over all human history from his study in eighteenth-century Edinburgh: It is universally acknowledged that there is a great...in its principles and operations. The same motives produce the same actions: The same events follow from the same causes. Ambition, avarice, selflove,... | |
 | Delbert D. Thiessen - Social Science - 170 pages
...accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. Elie Wiesel American writer The same motives always produce the same actions; the same events follow the same causes. David Hume Scottish philosopher The doctrine of a first cause and the very idea of... | |
 | Peter H. Kahn - Nature - 1999 - 302 pages
...Francis Bacon, and Galileo. Hume (|1748) 1961), for example, wrote: It is universally acknowledged there is a great uniformity among the actions of men,...The same motives always produce the same actions. . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new... | |
 | Charles L. Griswold - Philosophy - 1999 - 430 pages
...do so when contemplating the r,^ Cf. Hume's comment in the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. "It is universally acknowledged that there is a great...still the same, in its principles and operations. . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that his1ory informs us of nothing new... | |
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It is universally acknowledged, that there is a great uniformity among the actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions ; the same... 
