...David Hume. The latter maintained that "Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions and may never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."" hi Hume's view, reason's role is not to identify what is rational — that is, what people should want...

...appears, that the principle, which opposes our passion, cannot be the same with reason, and is only call'd so in an improper sense. We speak not strictly and...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" (Hume 1739, 415). Note, however, that we haven't yet assumed that the theoretical and the practical...

...Motives of the Will": "... reason alone can never produce any action, or give rise to volition ... Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the...to any other office than to serve and obey them." A Humean passion is an "original existence" (Treatise, II, iii, 3) that in itself is "neither reasonable...

...can withstand any principle, which has such an efficacy, — (ibid., pp. 414-415) Hume concludes that "reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" (ibid., p. 415). It therefore follows that there is no conflict between reason and the passions. Herbert...

...hierarchy, and the work of Spencer on progress was the basis for the claim to supremacy of Anglo-Saxons. "Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" — a statement as true of this quotation and of Hume's writings as of others. Perhaps the obsession...

...ruling over spirit and emotion, credited with much of the superiority of "Western" man, is demolished. "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" (Treatise, II, III, Section ii, p. 41 5). The moral at the end of Book I of the Treatise, said Baier,...

...contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger because 'reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them' (Hume, 1888, Book II, pt. 3, section 3). Hobbes makes reason subordinate to the demands of the appetites...

...previous chapter, held this view. In a famous passage of his A Treatise of Human Nature he claims that 'Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them' (Hume 1739, 1967: 415). By this he means that the use of reason can only be practical in so far as...

...act merely as restraints on conduct (Stephen 1864, pp. 69-70). Thus we see Hume's well-worn dictum - "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" (Hume 1739/40, p. 462) - resurrected in support of a moral philosophy justifying external restraints...

...splintering of the EastGo. Ibid., 314, 326-27, 330. 61. Ibid., 331-32. Cf. David Hume's famous remark: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the...to any other office than to serve and obey them"; David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton (1739-40; reprint,...