Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Reason Is Slave To The Passions Nonsense

David Hume


David Hume is perhaps a great philosopher, but he so terribly erred when he said  "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" in his “A Treatise of Human Nature”. In this respect Scottish Enlightenment has a serious defect.

Hope, I am not doing any injustice to David Hume here.


Undermines Individual Liberty And Responsibility


Anyone who believes in or acts on this or similar assertions is likely an authoritarian.


I would easily argue anytime that reason and moral values of most People beat any passions most of the time. Caveat: Nobody is perfect! :-)

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