, these impressions give rise to moral action or the lack of it, ôIf any man from a cold insensibility, or narrow selfishness of temper, is unaffected with the images of human happiness or misery, he must be equally indifferent to the images of vice and virtueàon the other hand, a warm concern for the interests of our species is attended with a delicate feeling of all moral distinctions,ö (Hume, 1983, p. 47).
Hume saw the person as represented by the ideas that he or she had which came to him or her in a series of impressions. The terms self or substance are meaningless unless they refer to s
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