| David Hume - 1882 - 524 páginas
..., ,, m a_ v i. e • jj' motires of when we talk of the combat or passion and of reason. tf,e will. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...it may not be improper to confirm it by some other considerations.1 A passion is an original existence, or, if you will, modification of existence, and... | |
| William Jackson - 1885 - 410 páginas
...with any moral obligation." — Ibid. ii. 5 (p. 285). And as to our Duty in regard of them : — (1) " Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the...any other office than to serve and obey them."— Ibid. Bk. It iii. 8 (p. 195). (2) [A few sentences further on] " 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer... | |
| William Jackson - 1885 - 408 páginas
...moral obligation." — Ibid. ii. 5 (p. 285). And as to our Duty in regard of them : — (1) " Eeason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions,...any other office than to serve and obey them."— Ibid. Bk. II. iii. 3 (p. 195). (2) [A few sentences further on] " 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer... | |
| Thomas Hill Green - 1885 - 580 páginas
...according to Hume. Reason, conconflict stituting no objects, affords no motives. ' It is only the between 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 but to... | |
| Edward Caird - 1885 - 284 páginas
...which is his best characteristic, declares 1 loldly that " reason is and ought to be the slave ( >f the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." The passions or desires are tendencies of a definite character which exist in man from the first ;... | |
| David Hume - 1888 - 752 páginas
...only to be the slave of the passions^ and can never pretend to any other office than to serve anff obey them. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary,...passion is an original existence, or, if you will, modi- ^. fication of existence, and contains not any representative quality, which renders it a copy... | |
| Edward Caird - 1893 - 262 páginas
...things to a distinct issue which is his best characteristic, declares boldly that " reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend...to any other office than to serve and obey them." The passions or desires are tendencies of a definite character which exist in man *Pol. Pos. i. 421.... | |
| John Watson - 1895 - 280 páginas
...it should withstand any principle which has such an efficacy, or ever keep the mind in suspense for a moment. Thus it appears that the principle which...to any other office than to serve and obey them." The motive, then, to all action comes from the desire for pleasure or the aversion from pain, and the... | |
| Franklin Monroe Sprague - 1895 - 180 páginas
...drinking too deeply at the springs of materialistic philosophy. Hume boldly says, " Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend...to any other office than to serve and obey them." Reason is likewise dethroned in Comte's social philosophy, respecting which Mr. Caird says, " The opposition... | |
| Samuel Harris - 1896 - 592 páginas
...all-dominating impulse, the desire of personal enjoyment. No one has stated this more explicitly than Hume : " Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them .... It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of... | |
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