 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 494 หน้า
...are or are not adequate. But it is not by itself a motive, ' 'Tis not contrary to reason,' he says, ' to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the...of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person totally unknown to me.'... | |
 | William Jackson - 1885 - 410 หน้า
...socalled, and the highest phase of Utilitarianism. In * Compare Hume's dictum before referred to : " 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of iny finger." Treatise, B. II., 2, 8 — " Of the influencing Motivf. of the Will." What Hume means... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 752 หน้า
...exist. Secondly, When in exerting any passion in action, we chuse means insufficient for the design'd end, and deceive ourselves in our judgment of causes...the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis noi contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1896 - 592 หน้า
...slave of the passions, and can never 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 my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian... | |
 | John Maynard Keynes - 1927 - 64 หน้า
...object of conduct — taking Utility from Hume, but forgetting that sage man's cynical corollary : "'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction...of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person totally unknown to me.... | |
 | John Dunn - 1979 - 156 หน้า
...to any other office than to serve and obey them.' And cf. the ringing affirmation (p. 128): 'It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.' and reason or his over-readiness to ascribe substantive egoism to animality and substantive altruism... | |
 | James Gribble - 1983 - 196 หน้า
...constitution of your nature you have a feeling or sentiment of blame from the contemplation of it. . . Where a passion is neither founded on false suppositions...destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.20 Those who have followed Hume have regarded value judgements as matters of attitude, or taste,... | |
 | Norman O. Dahl - 1984 - 322 หน้า
...passion, reason can not be contrary to a passion, nor can a passion be contrary to reason. Therefore, "Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction...of the whole world to the scratching of my finger," ([1964], p. 416). That is, no passion (and therefore no action) is rational or irrational. Hume seems... | |
 | Norman O. Dahl - 1984 - 322 หน้า
...passion, reason can not be contrary to a passion, nor can a passion be contrary to reason. Therefore, "Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction...of the whole world to the scratching of my finger," ([1964], p. 416). That is, no passion (and therefore no action) is rational or irrational. Hume seems... | |
 | Esa Itkonen - 1983 - 364 หน้า
...chooses means insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. Hume's account may possess some degree of internal coherence but it is too obviously at variance with... | |
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Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 
