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Reason Over Passion (French: La raison avant la passion) is a Canadian experimental film, directed by Joyce Wieland and released in 1969.
Passion and reason are two essential aspects of human nature that shape our thoughts, actions, and decisions. While passion fuels our desires, motivation, and creativity, reason provides us with logical thinking, critical analysis, and rational decision-making.
Reason is the slave of the passions in the sense that practical reason alone cannot give rise to moral motivation; it is altogether dependent on pre-existing desires that furnish motivational force. For Hume, this is not a fact we should lament (as moralists do) but a basic fact about our psychology. Share.
- Hume's quotation is from a famous passage discussing the "motivating influence of the will" in his Treatise on Human Nature and reads in full: Reas...
- You can apply this quotation in many different contexts as far as Hume's thought is concerned - in general I think the best way to read it is as an...
- To use an analogy, a map by itself does not tell you where to go, only how to get there once you have decided. Hume is saying that reason, or logic...
- Hume's argument is that all preferences and motives are emotional. There is no such thing as an unemotional or purely rational decision, because to...
- In short: there are beliefs and desires. What Hume says (and that's also what is true) is that only desires can make us act / give reasons / determ...
- To understand the quotation, one needs to understand what is meant by reason and passion. It is commonly understood that "reasonable" persons think...
- This statement arises from Hume's definition of the intellect, he never believed the intellect to offer more than it took in i.e. the job of the in...
- Hume is wrong. What he means is that passions overtake his reason, which he felt perhaps should be superior. However Hume was apparently atheistic,...
Passion vs. Reason. Visiting lecturer Katharina Paxman explained that all actions – even the reasonable ones – are dictated by passion. PROVO, Utah (January 15, 2015)—Pop culture is filled with fictional characters who, instead of being motivated by emotions, decide everything by cold logic.
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- Environment, Ecology, and Landscape
Joyce Wieland belongs to that 1960s generation of artists sometimes referred to as the neo-avant-garde. In Canada and internationally, trained modernist painters were breaking away from a medium-specific understanding of art, developing practices that used a wide range of materials, media, and subject matter. The American art critic Clement Greenbe...
When Wieland made assemblages and films that alluded to the Vietnam War, she joined a generation of activists, intellectuals, students, and artists outraged by a war that resulted in carnage. But Wieland’s treatment of serious political issues would often be allusive, ironic, or even comical. For instance, in Stuffed Movie, 1966, references to the ...
In 2008–9 Joyce Wieland was included in the exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution when it travelled to the Vancouver Art Gallery from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her art and experimental films were powerful contributions to an international phenomenon—the transformation of twentieth-century art as it came into contact wi...
Joyce Wieland was deeply responsive to the natural environment, both as an activist and as an artist/filmmaker. In the early 1960s she spoke out against the widespread use of pesticides, and in later years she was involved in other ecological causes and protested the construction of massive hydroelectric dams in northern Canada. By the time of her ...
Nov 27, 2017 · The world is full of reason and not enough passion. So instead of creating and seeking passion, wasting your life time being passionate, seek reason why you do the things you love.
Reason over Passion attracted particular attention because of its direct reference to the newly elected prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Wieland was inspired by an assertion made by Trudeau, “Reason over passion—that is the theme of all my writing.”
