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   Is reason a slave of passions?

   • 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. Passions ≠ desires.

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   Do our passions 'yield to reason'?

   • Two central claims are being advanced in this paper. The first is that in the key texts concerning the way in which our passions "yield to reason," Hume characterizes reason as having a kind of dominance over the passions that is generally ignored.

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   Is a passion a representation of something else?

   • Of course, a passion as a whole is not a representation of something else. But it is false that a passion "contains not any representative quality." (3) It is the third implication of Hume's theory that seems to us to grant reason more control over the passions than is realistic.

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   Is Hume a'slave of the passions'?

   • Of course in these areas Hume also plays down the role of reason (or the intellect) in favor of the non-rational part of the mind (the imagination). But the point of the "slave of the passions" idea is specific to its topic, morality.

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   Is passion contrary to reason?

   • And there is no other instance of passion contrary to reason. Hume famously declaims, “’Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. ‘Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me.

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   Why are passions important?

   • The passions (i.e., emotions or affects) are necessary to evaluate any object or idea as valuable, problematic, virtuous, immoral, good, or bad, because these forms of evaluation are all based on either a positive or negative impression.

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   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.

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   “Reason Is and Ought Only to Be the Slave of the Passions” One of the most notorious of Hume’s views about the passions concerns their relation to our practical reason. Hume locates our motivations in the passions.

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   Nov 17, 2021 · This common picture of human action is denied by Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776). Hume instead claims that acting rationally means going along with our desires. That is a central idea expressed by his famous quote: “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”

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   Oct 29, 2004 · Hume’s position in ethics, which is based on his empiricist theory of the mind, is best known for asserting four theses: (1) Reason alone cannot be a motive to the will, but rather is the “slave of the passions” (see Section 3) (2) Moral distinctions are not derived from reason (see Section 4).

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   Jan 20, 2024 · In his quote, "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," David Hume challenges the conventional hierarchy between reason and passion.

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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. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some other considerations.

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   Apr 1, 2008 · There are two points that Hume attempts to prove in defending the claim that reason is the slave of the passions: "That reason alone can never be the motive to any action of the will, and secondly, that it can never oppose passion in the direction of the will" (T 2.3.3.1; SBN 413).