{"id":"https://openalex.org/W1993740671","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0236","title":"Hume's Progressive View of Human Nature","display_name":"Hume's Progressive View of Human Nature","publication_year":2000,"publication_date":"2000-04-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W1993740671","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0236","mag":"1993740671"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1353/hms.2011.0236","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0236","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0236","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S154562576","display_name":"Hume studies","issn_l":"0319-7336","issn":["0319-7336","1947-9921"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","erih-plus","jufo-2","norway-1","poland-20","russia-white-list-4","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Hume Studies","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5065325263","display_name":"Michael B. Gill","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6798-1550","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6798-1550"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I204593131","display_name":"College of Charleston","ror":"https://ror.org/00390t168","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I204593131"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Michael Gill","raw_affiliation_strings":["(College of Charleston)"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"(College of Charleston)","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I204593131"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5065325263"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I204593131"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":48,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.38099652,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"26","issue":"1","first_page":"87","last_page":"108"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14371","display_name":"Hume's philosophy and hair distribution","score":0.9872999787330627,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3300","display_name":"General Social Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14371","display_name":"Hume's philosophy and hair distribution","score":0.9872999787330627,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3300","display_name":"General Social Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10297","display_name":"Philosophical Ethics and Theory","score":0.006099999882280827,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12517","display_name":"Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought","score":0.002400000113993883,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/david-hume","display_name":"David Hume","score":0.9869999885559082},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/a-treatise-of-human-nature","display_name":"A Treatise of Human Nature","score":0.9649999737739563},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/justice","display_name":"justice","score":0.7250000238418579},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mandeville","display_name":"Mandeville","score":0.8820000290870667},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/shaftesbury","display_name":"Shaftesbury","score":0.9490000009536743},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/hutcheson","display_name":"Hutcheson","score":0.9990000128746033},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/science-of-man","display_name":"science of man","score":0.5759999752044678},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/moral-sentiments","display_name":"moral sentiments","score":0.3109999895095825},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/natural-sociability","display_name":"natural sociability","score":0.32600000500679016},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/eighteenth-century-british-philosophy","display_name":"eighteenth-century British philosophy","score":0.6179999709129333}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.7701033353805542},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.5501358509063721}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1353/hms.2011.0236","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0236","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0236","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S154562576","display_name":"Hume studies","issn_l":"0319-7336","issn":["0319-7336","1947-9921"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","erih-plus","jufo-2","norway-1","poland-20","russia-white-list-4","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Hume Studies","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"sustainable_development_goals_aurora":[{"display_name":"Peace, justice, and strong institutions","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/16","score":0.7699999809265137}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":26,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W68661234","https://openalex.org/W613862530","https://openalex.org/W637530142","https://openalex.org/W974666292","https://openalex.org/W1547000295","https://openalex.org/W1564780910","https://openalex.org/W1590999749","https://openalex.org/W1591422284","https://openalex.org/W1804926598","https://openalex.org/W1965705342","https://openalex.org/W2002067788","https://openalex.org/W2041979514","https://openalex.org/W2042966245","https://openalex.org/W2053153155","https://openalex.org/W2070465778","https://openalex.org/W2091287912","https://openalex.org/W2131856109","https://openalex.org/W2134161617","https://openalex.org/W2158173926","https://openalex.org/W2269836321","https://openalex.org/W2304001475","https://openalex.org/W2314933517","https://openalex.org/W2320086422","https://openalex.org/W3022690772","https://openalex.org/W3151373452","https://openalex.org/W4285719527"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W1515715251","https://openalex.org/W2090661296","https://openalex.org/W2952944142","https://openalex.org/W7135885681","https://openalex.org/W7010483891","https://openalex.org/W2148115830","https://openalex.org/W162603884","https://openalex.org/W1597675071","https://openalex.org/W2710416240","https://openalex.org/W2238751884"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Hume":[0,24,80,103,148,180,206],"Studies":[1],"Volume":[2],"XXVI,":[3],"Number":[4],"1,":[5],"April":[6],"2000,":[7],"pp.":[8],"87-108":[9],"Hume's":[10,257,298,331,386,416,437,480,489],"Progressive":[11],"View":[12],"of":[13,38,55,74,77,88,91,107,130,161,173,214,237,245,260,263,268,274,283,294,297,304,312,315,333,348,388,439,451,462,482,551,585,614,622,663],"Human":[14,496],"Nature":[15],"MICHAEL":[16],"GILL":[17],"In":[18,227,352,373,402,430],"the":[19,22,53,75,89,92,105,128,133,144,159,171,261,266,272,284,295,302,310,339,346,353,358,363,371,374,403,431,472,549,619,650],"introduction":[20],"to":[21,51,65,83,120,153,184,488,576,593,631,638,642,646,649,659],"Treatise,":[23],"maintains":[25],"that":[26,79,155,189,205,379,408,455,461,519,560,569,616],"scientific":[27],"advance":[28],"will":[29,231,240,250],"come":[30],"only":[31],"through":[32],"an":[33],"accurate":[34],"and":[35,61,96,112,124,212,280,337,366,368,395,400,423,425,448,484,515,536,545,557,579,597,607],"comprehensive":[36],"conception":[37],"human":[39,246,275,452,552,561,651],"nature.":[40,247],"He":[41],"praises":[42],"\"some":[43],"late":[44],"philosophers":[45,95,287],"in":[46,132,139,158,168,186,288,301,338,345,384,391,396,414,419,426,445,471,517,528,564,572],"England,":[47],"who":[48,109],"have":[49,196],"begun":[50],"put":[52,208],"science":[54,347],"man":[56],"on":[57,82,223,271,362,370,548],"a":[58,86,162,174,187,242,269,292,342,446,654,661],"new":[59,163,210,447],"footing\"":[60],"declares":[62],"his":[63,305,463],"intention":[64],"build":[66],"upon":[67,604],"their":[68],"work":[69,90,185,303],"(T":[70,350],"xvii).1":[71],"How":[72],"much":[73,98],"\"science":[76],"man\"":[78,349],"goes":[81],"develop":[84],"is":[85,99,102,114,118,157,167,308,335,390,418,456,547,625,641,657,669],"recapitulation":[87],"other":[93,178,411],"British":[94],"how":[97,436,486],"new?":[100],"When":[101],"borrowing":[104],"insights":[106],"those":[108],"came":[110,225],"before":[111],"when":[113,165,254],"he":[115,156,166,595],"innovating?":[116],"It":[117],"difficult":[119],"answer":[121],"these":[122,440],"questions,":[123],"not":[125,524],"just":[126,658],"because":[127],"rules":[129],"attribution":[131],"eighteenth":[134],"century":[135],"were":[136],"looser":[137],"than":[138],"ours.":[140],"For":[141,290,554],"at":[142,177,309],"times":[143,179],"verve":[145],"with":[146,393,398,421,428,479,543,675],"which":[147,385,415,656],"writes":[149],"can":[150,200],"lead":[151],"one":[152,233,364,454],"think":[154],"grip":[160],"discovery,":[164],"fact":[169],"recounting":[170],"ideas":[172,183],"predecessor.":[175],"And":[176],"puts":[181],"others'":[182],"manner":[188],"they":[190],"themselves":[191],"never":[192],"considered":[193],"or":[194,458,467,628,645],"would":[195],"actively":[197],"opposed.":[198],"There":[199],"be":[201,219,639,643,660],"no":[202],"doubt,":[203],"however,":[204],"does":[207],"forth":[209],"ideas,":[211],"some":[213,477],"them,":[215],"I":[216,230,239,356,377,406,434,469,495,509],"think,":[217],"must":[218],"counted":[220],"real":[221],"advances":[222],"what":[224,238],"before.":[226],"this":[228,532],"paper":[229],"elucidate":[232],"such":[234,676],"advance\u2014the":[235],"development":[236],"call":[241],"progressive":[243,459,490],"view":[244,249,450,491],"This":[248,668],"stand":[251],"out":[252,502],"clearly":[253],"we":[255],"place":[256],"Treatise":[258],"account":[259,299,387,417,481],"virtue":[262],"justice":[264,389,483],"against":[265],"backdrop":[267],"dispute":[270,359],"origin":[273,550],"sociability":[276,562],"between":[277,360],"Shaftesbury,":[278,534],"Mandeville,":[279,361],"Hutcheson,":[281,369,535],"three":[282,329],"five":[285],"\"late":[286],"England.\"":[289],"while":[291,555],"number":[293],"pieces":[296],"appear":[300],"Michael":[306,327],"Gill":[307,328],"Department":[311],"Philosophy,":[313],"College":[314],"Charleston,":[316,320],"66":[317],"George":[318],"Street,":[319],"SC":[321],"29424-0001,":[322],"USA.":[323],"e-mail:":[324],"gillm@cofc.edu":[325],"88":[326],"predecessors,":[330],"combination":[332,438],"them":[334],"novel,":[336],"end":[340],"constitutes":[341],"significant":[343,382,412],"\"improvement":[344],"xvii).":[351],"first":[354],"section,":[355,376,405,433,474],"outline":[357],"hand,":[365],"Shaftesbury":[367,399,422,544,556,574],"other.":[372],"second":[375],"show":[378,407],"there":[380,409],"are":[381,410,498,523,602],"respects":[383,413],"agreement":[392,420],"Mandeville":[394,537,541,567],"disagreement":[397,427],"Hutcheson.":[401],"third":[404],"Hutcheson":[424,546,558],"Mandeville.":[429],"fourth":[432],"explain":[435],"two":[441],"different":[442],"aspects":[443],"results":[444],"improved":[449],"nature,":[453],"dynamic":[457],"where":[460],"predecessors":[464],"was":[465],"static":[466],"originalist.":[468],"conclude,":[470],"fifth":[473],"by":[475],"noting":[476],"problems":[478],"suggesting":[485],"attention":[487],"might":[492],"mitigate":[493],"them.":[494],"beings":[497],"sociable.":[499],"They":[500,522],"seek":[501],"company,":[503],"live":[504],"together":[505],"\"in":[506],"Multitudes\"":[507],"(Mandeville":[508],"41),2":[510],"undertake":[511],"large":[512],"cooperative":[513],"endeavors,":[514],"act":[516],"ways":[518],"benefit":[520],"others.":[521],"solitary":[525],"creatures":[526],"engaged":[527],"perpetual":[529],"warfare.":[530],"On":[531],"point":[533],"all":[538,590,599],"agree.":[539],"Where":[540],"disagrees":[542],"sociability.":[553],"believe":[559],"originates":[563,571],"natural":[565,587],"benevolence,":[566],"believes":[568],"it":[570],"self-interest.":[573],"points":[575],"our":[577,580,586,600,632],"friendships":[578],"morals":[581],"as":[582,653],"compelling":[583],"evidence":[584],"benevolence.":[588],"We":[589],"prefer":[591],"\"Company\"":[592],"\"Solitude,\"":[594],"says,":[596],"\"almost":[598],"Pleasures\"":[601],"built":[603],"\"mutual":[605],"Converse\"":[606],"\"Society\"":[608],"(Shaftesbury's":[609],"Inquiry":[610],"63).3":[611],"The":[612],"aspect":[613],"friendship":[615],"gives":[617],"us":[618,674],"most":[620],"pleasure":[621],"all,":[623],"moreover,":[624],"being":[626,671],"benevolent":[627,644],"\"doing":[629],"good\"":[630,648],"friends":[633],"(Characteristics":[634,665],"II":[635,666],"36).4":[636],"But":[637],"virtuous":[640,672],"\"do":[647],"species":[652],"whole,":[655],"\"friend":[662],"mankind\"":[664],"37).":[667],"why":[670],"provides":[673],"pleasure\u2014because...":[677]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":13},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-16T09:59:22.235173","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}