...action, being a consequence of character, is secondary. As Hume put the point, "Actions are by their very nature temporary and perishing; and where they proceed...in the character and disposition of the person, who perform'd them, they infix not themselves upon him, and can neither redound to his honour, if good,...

...recapitulates his earlier account of causal necessity. Voluntary actions, he there writes, proceed from "some cause in the character and disposition of the person who performed them" (T 41 1) in the same contingently regular predictable way that other natural effects follow their causes....

...impelling passions, distinct from the sense of morals" (Ibid., p. 483). "Actions are, by their very nature, temporary and perishing; and where they proceed...who performed them, they can neither redound to his honor, if good; nor infamy, if evil. [A] person is not answerable for [immoral deeds if] they proceeded...

...the other. His actions, being uncaused, would be outside his control. As Hume puts it, where actions "proceed not from some cause in the character and...redound to his honour, if good, nor infamy, if evil" (EU, 98). For the libertarian, therefore, there is a serious difficulty in giving a plausible account...

...in the Treatise near the end of his discussion of liberty and necessity. Actions are by their very nature temporary and perishing; and where they proceed...in the character and disposition of the person, who perform'd them, they infix not themselves upon him, and can neither redound to his honour, if good,...

...Handlungen nicht die eigentliche Ursache moralischer Gefühle sein können. "Actions are by their very nature temporary and perishing; and where they proceed not from some cause in the characters and disposition of the person, who perform 'd them, they infix not themselves upon him,...

...(1739) observed in his eighteenthcentury work, A Treatise of Human Nature: "Actions are by their very nature temporary and perishing; and where they proceed not from some cause in the characters and disposition of the person, who perform'd them, they infix not themselves upon him, and...

...requires that human actions should have been determined by the will. Whenever actions do not proceed "from some cause in the character and disposition...redound to his honour, if good; nor infamy, if evil." A person is only responsible for the actions determined by his will, which is why we excuse insane...

...simplistic approach to cruelty. They will be guided by Hume's observation that "actions are by their very nature temporary and perishing; and where they proceed...disposition of the person, who performed them, they infix not themselves upon him, and neither redound to his honour, if good, nor infamy, if evil" (Hume...

...determination. As Hume explained (and his argument has been echoed ever since): "Actions are, by their very nature, temporary and perishing; and where they proceed...redound to his honour, if good; nor infamy, if evil." 28 The challenge for the libertarian is to explain how free actions are praiseworthy or blameworthy...