 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1815 - 474 pages
...total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or of a person wholly unknown to me." That " reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and ean never pretend to any other offiee, than to serve and obey them." If we take the word reason to... | |
 | Ritter - Philosophy - 1853 - 680 pages
...somme passion or affection. Hum. nat. II p. 245 sqq. 2) Ess. II p. 215. 3) Hum. nat. II p. 247 sq, Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. 4) Ib. II p. 248 sqq. 5) Ib. II p. 308 sqq.; ess. H p. 120 sqq. S. 6. îtyilof. xii. -22 bofj bíe... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 564 pages
...speak not strictly and philosophically, iffhan^wa ~ialk of _the combat of passio|]t.and af reason. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any ot^rjOj^^j^aJL»AQL §§IX£^^^T^eX them, As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 544 pages
...of human action according to Hume. Reason, constituting no objects, affords no motives. ' It is only the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.'3 To any logical thinker who accepted Locke's doctrine of reason, as having no other function... | |
 | George Sylvester Morris - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 510 pages
...relations susceptible of certainty and demonstrations" is combated. "Reason," says Hume, "is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office but to serve and obey them." Moral distinctions are affairs of sentiment, or impression, or feeling,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - England - 1881 - 492 pages
...speaking, there is no such thing as a combat between reason and passion. 1 Hume's Works, iv. 174, ' Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.'1 The phraseology is wantonly paradoxical in sound, because in his early treatise Hume aimed... | |
 | William Jackson - Natural theology - 1885 - 410 pages
...little, and it is broken ; find in it a possible gap, and it is no longei an absolute whole. * eg, Hume: "Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions," etc. Hence he argues that it is not contrary to reason for a man to prefer his lesser good to his greater,... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 752 pages
...speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. SReason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions^...can never pretend to any other office than to serve anff obey them. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm... | |
 | Mattoon Monroe Curtis - Ethics - 1890 - 168 pages
...between desire and action. These phases of thought must maintain some such position as that held by Hume; "Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them".1) But Locke's position is diametrically opposed to this; that which Hume makes slave, Locke... | |
 | Benjamin Chapman Burt - Philosophy, Modern - 1892 - 378 pages
...reason or understanding alone neither causes nor prevents volition, and it merely " guides " the will. " Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the...can never pretend to any other office than to serve them." There is in reality no conflict between reason and the passions in relation to the will. The... | |
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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.'2 Now, this appears to be a paradoxical and strange position to adopt. 
