Humified

Hume purports that life in general, and the way in which life is lived, or should be lived, is completely relative to the mind. He places a very high emphasis on the power of passion, rather than reason. There are violent and calm passions, ad these generally counteract each other. To examples of this are pride and humility. Hume begins by debating whether or not these passions are natural or artificial. He comes to the conclusion that because they only arise in regards to an object, that is, there is a direct relation between an object and the feeling of pride or humility, and that the object is always the "self", or the person being affected, they are natural in origin. He goes to observe, using this logic, that sympathy is also an object-affect relationship, in that a person observes another person, and ether feels proud or humbled in relation to that other person's stance in the world. Thus, the power of both comparison and imagination are incredibly important to Hume's moral philosophy. He also brings up love and hatred. The difference here is that one is either Proud or Humbled by external objects or ideas - money, beauty, power, etc. With love/hatred, the passion is directed at another living person. Again, comparison and imagination are brought up - one either wishes to see another succeed and achieve happiness, in the case of love, or fail and be miserable, in the case of hatred.