What Does Hume Mean by Passions

According to Hume’s theory of the mind, the passions (what we today would call emotions, feelings, and desires) are impressions rather than ideas (original, vivid and lively perceptions that are not copied from other perceptions).

What are calm passions Hume?

Hume goes on to explain that a calm passion arises when a passion becomes “a settled principle of action”; “repeated custom and its own force have made every thing yield to it”, thus removing the “opposition and emotion” that would typically accompany it (THN 2.3. 4.1).

What are the passions in philosophy?

In philosophy and religion the passions are the instinctive, emotional, primitive drives in a human being (including, for example, lust, anger, aggression and jealousy) which a human being must restrain, channel, develop and sublimate in order to be possessed of wisdom.