...criticism, evaluation, and appraisal, is absurd, as Hume himself clearly recognizes when he comments, "Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."5 Though they are also instrumental, it is our emotions that are constitutive of our ultimate...

...theory of the 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...

...others. This second feature is in sharp contrast to Hume, who claims that: Where a passion is neither founded on false suppositions, nor chooses means insufficient...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...

...about the world. It is a purely instrumental faculty individuals can only use to find the best way 7' «'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction...whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis not contrarv lo reason lor me to chuse my total ruin. to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person...

...can only dictate the means necessary to achieve a single end, not to optimize given conflicting ends: 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction...the whole world to the scratching of my finger Tis as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledg'd lesser good to my greater, and have...

...and colour, our reason is powerless to reject the most fantastic conclusions: no wonder that for Hume "tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction...of the whole world to the scratching of my finger'. Yet perhaps one should say again, not for Hume, but for Hume as a philosopher. He is the first to admit...

...be "contrary to reason" only in so far as they are accompanied by, for example, some false opinion. 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction...of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. ... a passion must be accompany'd with some false judgement, in order to its being unreasonable; and...

...(knowledge, thinking) cannot motivate us, for only passions can do this. (As he famously proclaimed: 'Tis not contrary to reason, to prefer the destruction...the whole world to the scratching of my finger.') However, reasoning plays a vital role in enabling us to reflect on and learn from our experiences and...

...comes into play in many such matters. David Hume summed it up very nicely with his epithet: 'it is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.' Now chronically hungry people and the conditions that keep them that way are very dull subjects, as...

...suppositions, nor chases means insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemu it. Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of im finger. Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness...