...groundwork not only for our freedoms but also for our obligations. 2. "Reason is," David Hume declares, "and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" (Treatise 2. 3. 414—415). This famous declaration has, ever since Hume enunciated it, become a rallying...

...frequently associate the instrumental conception with David Hume's dictum 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." A Treatise on Human Nature, ed. David Fate Norton and Mary Norton (Oxford: Oxford University Press,...

...perfect knowledge. Hume talks of the "imperfections and narrow limits of human understanding" and that "reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions and can never pretend to any office other than to serve and obey them."3 Their central claim is that, a free market economy, by...

...point nearly three centuries ago, when he insisted that "reason is and ought to be only the slave of passions and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."2 To Hume, deductive reasoning and empirical knowledge about causation were important instruments...

...when we come to ends, reason should be silent. "Reason is, and ought to be the slave of the passion, can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" [1951, 415]. This definition went on to become common in both everyday language and in the vocabularies...

...environment in which they live. This has certainly been the case since Hume, reflecting his infamous 'Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions'. Wanting and desiring are the ultimate springs of Action, reason being at a loss to explain the ultimate...

...upholding the prior claims of the metropolitan self. Usurpation and Empathy in Parliamentary Debates Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. — David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (17)9-40) Perhaps the most astonishing facet of the parliamentary...

...people into the paths of virtue. But it is not, as we should suspect when we recall Hume's dictum that reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions. Instead of cynically manipulating those superficial beliefs that overlie essential reason, Hume's moral...

...see also 113, 131). Reason is no savior, as we are reminded by one of Hume's most infamous remarks: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" (Hume 1739-40/2000, 266). Moreover, the passions — for example, the love of another person or an...

...is as incapable of preventing volition, or of disputing the preference with any passion or emotion Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world than to the scratching of...