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...serve and obey them. 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world than 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 a person wholly unknown to me....

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...everyone against everyone." a. Locke b. Marx c. Nietzsche d. Hobbes 15 "'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger." a. Hume b. Nietzsche c. Wittgenstein d. Hobbes 16 "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature,...

...explains that "the understanding can neither justify nor condemn" a passion. "'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger." 7 This is the sense in which Hume's psychologistic account of moral motivation may be labeled an "internalist"...

...David Hume captured the essence of this principle in his famous remark that "Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."1 Mel Brooks made a similar point 300 years later: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy...

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...abstract sensations in time."139In response to Hume's contention that, "it is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger," Mumford comments, "one could not caricature this doctrine if one wanted to. ... It stands self-condemned....