...other office than to serve and obey them." " 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of I 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 ; 'tis...

...Utility from Hume, but forgetting that sage man's cynical corollary : "'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the...uneasiness of an Indian, or person totally unknown to me. . . . Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other...

...insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the...of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasi[' Introd. § 44.— ED.] o 2 PART ness of an Indian...

...than to serve and obey them.' And cf. the ringing affirmation (p. 128): 'It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.' and reason or his over-readiness to ascribe substantive egoism to animality and substantive altruism...

...insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.20 Those who have followed Hume have regarded value judgements as matters of attitude, or taste,...

...contrary to a passion, nor can a passion be contrary to reason. Therefore, "Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger," ([1964], p. 416). That is, no passion (and therefore no action) is rational or irrational. Hume seems...

...contrary to a passion, nor can a passion be contrary to reason. Therefore, "Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger," ([1964], p. 416). That is, no passion (and therefore no action) is rational or irrational. Hume seems...

...substantive rationality of goals and desires, to put to rest Hume's statement, 'It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger'" (NR, 140). On this last issue, Nozick presents his account as mildly revisionist. He takes "a tiny...

...Urteile aus der Perspektive der ersten Person, so drückt sich in ih1 „Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger" (Hume, Treatise 416). 2 Man denke zB an den viel diskutierten Fall, daß jemand das Leben von zahlreichen...

...Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism, London: Chatto and Windus, 1999, p. ix. 18 "Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.' David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, in Hume's Ethical Writings, Alasdair Maclntyre (ed.l, London,...