...already proved, can never have any such influence. Morals excite passions, and produce or [•revent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this...inference; nor is there any other means of evading it, lij..ii by denying that principle, on which it is founded. As long as it is allowed, that reason has...

...have any such influence. Morals excite passions, and produce or preVOL. ii. 28 vent actions. Keason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular....denying that principle, on which it is founded. As long us it is allowed, that reason has no influence on our passions and actions, it is in vain to pretend...

...that they cannot be deriv'd from reason ; and that because reason alone, as we have already prov'd, can never have any such influence. Morals excite passions,...principle, on which it is founded. As long as it is allow'd, that reason has no influence on our passions and actions, 'tis in vain to pretend, that morality...

...that they cannot be deriv'd from reason ; and that because reason alone, as we have already prov'd, can never have any such influence. Morals excite passions,...principle, on which it is founded. As long as it is allow'd, that reason has no influence on our passions and actions, 'tis in vain to pretend, that morality...

...courage in comparison with that given to moral qualities. 8 Bk. ii . pt. iii, sec. 3. actions. Beason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular....morality therefore are not conclusions of our reason." ' In the second INQUIRY this summing-up substantially reappears : — " The distinct boundaries and...

...prov'd, can never have any such influence. Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Eeason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular....principle, on which it is founded. As long as it is allow'd, that reason has no influence on our passions and actions, 'tis in vain to pretend, that morality...

...that they cannot be deriv'd from reason; and that because reason alone, as we have already prov'd, can never have any such influence. Morals excite passions,...principle, on which it is founded. As long as it is allow'd, that reason has no influence on our passions and actions, 'tis in vain to pretend, that morality...

...affections, it follows that they cannot be derived from reason; and that because reason alone . . . can never have any such influence. Morals excite passions,...morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason. . . . Reason is the discovery of truth or falsehood. Truth or falsehood consists in an agreement or...

...that they cannot be deriv'd from reason; and that because reason alone, as we have already prov'd, can never have any such influence. Morals excite passions,...morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason" (Hume 1739: III, i, 1/457). that moral claims cannot be fact-stating and that, as a result, noncognitivism...

...injustice, and impelled to others by that of obligation. Since morals, therefore, have an influence on the actions and affections, it follows that they cannot...morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, III, I, §1; in Henry D. Aiken, ed., Hume's Moral and Political...