Hume’s Notion of Pride: The Moral Agenсy as the Basis for Personal Identity

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the Hume’s understanding of pride as such an af-fect which has the idea of Self as the object, but such kind of object which is necessary for making some phenomena the source of pride, on the one hand, and on the other – which is founded by pride itself. Self as an identity (and not only as a bunch of impressions) can be found neither within the epistemic discourse nor through the passions of pride and humility but through the pride as a value providing the person’s ability to act and founding the moral agency, Hume’s pride in some sense can be correlated with Kant’s arrogantia moralis (moral pride). His understanding of the role of the idea of the Self for the moral act can be correlated with the Aristotle’s great-souled or proud man.