 | Martin Jay - 2005 - 454 стор.
...devoted to the passions, whose importance is evident in one of Hume's most widely quoted remarks: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" (p. 415). For a discussion of this issue, see Fogelin, Hume's Skepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature,... | |
 | Neal Roese, Ph.D. - 2005 - 270 стор.
...That's what Freud argued. Earlier still, the British philosopher David Hume proclaimed that "reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions,...to any other office than to serve and obey them." Even today most people assume that emotions cloud our mind and make us do things that are unwise, as... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 454 стор.
...unknown to me.' Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a combat between reason and passion. 'Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...to any other office than to serve and obey them.' 4 The phraseology is wantonly paradoxical in sound, because in his early treatise Hume aimed at being... | |
 | James F. Sennett, Douglas Groothuis - 2005 - 337 стор.
...passions are not the sorts of mental entities that can oppose one another."11 Hume declares, "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" (THN 2.3.3, p. 415). Reason by itself cannot produce action, nor can it give rise to volition or prevent... | |
 | David Webster - 2005 - 296 стор.
...reason should not, indeed cannot, hope to be the element that selects what we want. As he states: Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.61 Reason here is not the driving force; it is, as I have heard some call it, 'a gun for hire'.... | |
 | Elijah Millgram - 2005 - 370 стор.
...that I will be focusing on the discussion surrounding Hume's well-known pronouncement that "reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."3 The instrumentalist appropriation of the battle cry, "Reason is the slave of the passions,"... | |
 | William B. Irvine - 2005 - 336 стор.
...speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."50 According to Hume, reason is capable of telling us that if we do X, Y will result. It is incapable... | |
 | Jonathan Haidt - 2006 - 332 стор.
...believe the Scottish philosopher David Hume was closer to the truth than was Plato when he said, "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."26 In sum, the rider is an advisor or servant; not a king, president, or charioteer with a firm... | |
 | Robert M. Wallace - 2005 - 878 стор.
...depriving action of the "oomph" that alone motivates it. David Hume wrote that "reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend...to any other office than to serve and obey them," and Bernard Williams argued that genuine reasons are all "internal" to the agent for whom they are... | |
 | Enrico Pattaro - 2012 - 878 стор.
...authoritative statement in David Hume's assertion that "reason is and ought only to be the slave of passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" (Hume 1978, 415, vol. 2, sec. 3.3). Recently the issue has been tackled by Nozick (1993, 139ff.), who... | |
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. 
