This is a series of essays (there should end up around four of them) investigating the nature of passions, there interconnection with morality, and the difference between affects and passion, all from a Humean perspective. The aim is to prepare the way for a series of essays on mutuality, which will start this summer, and will attempt to tie together all the philosophy here.
Hume and the Passionate Index
1)Indirect Passions. This starts ball rolling with nice short (2,000 word) essay on why Hume thinks pride matters so much, and how it allows on to found a self. But I did Draft it!
2)Direct passions. this turns to the problem of why Hume thinks about desire in terms of Good and Evil, and attempts in 2000 words to make it sound brilliant. I did also draft this one though!
3)The Lover. This looks at the idea of the desire for good from the perspective of Plato’s symposium, where the term was coined. It is rather short at 1,900 words, but then I did draft it.
4)Self Injected: this essay looks at the positive side of passions and how they really do allow one to inject or augment a self within reality. the essay paves the way for the next onein this sequence on the reality of morality. It is 3000 words drafted by me.
5)The froth on the Top. this essay looks at the nature of Hume’s moral theory, and why the family matter so much in his explication.the aim is to show he develop a theory with is neither really about a persona ethic or a proscriptive morality. It leads to the next essay, and is very short (2000) words, but drafted by me.
6)Improper Fractals 1: First of series of essays of the nature of improper principles. This serves as an introduction, both general (it makes a series of distictions between truth and error), but also specific (it introduces te first tumble into reality). All the examples are drawn from Little Dorrit (well save one from Austen). It is 3000 words drafted by me.
7)Improper Fractals 2. This essay looks at the advent of individual passions within the obit of another passion. And how that new passion might be pulled out and developed on its own. it is worth baring in mind Lttle Dorrit and particulary the status of Pet, Mr Meagles, TattyCoram, and Miss Wade) which forms the background to these philosophic definitions. it is 3000 words Drafted by me.
8)Improper Fractal 3: this essay looks and the elaborate connections between owning and possessing. It is the best formation so far I have of these terms. But is 4000 words long drafted by me.
9)Improper Fractal 4: this looks and the Threadbare myth that allows an owned passion possessions of its own. In is quite Little Dorrity, and last for 3000 words drafted by me.