...higher kind of life. When Hume, in his Treatise on Human Nature, says : " 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," he implies that the exercise of reason is no constituent factor of human life, but something outside...

...values. This was expressed in a striking way by Hume when he said : " Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." Perfect knowledge, as Professor Dewey says, is not knowledge (in its intellectual or logical connotation)...

...alone can never produce any action, or give rise to volition. . . . Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." — Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, II. iii 3. 30. Jowett, Dialogues of Plato, 2nd edit., I. 3. 34....

...speak not strictly when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Eeason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." " 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of I the whole world to the scratching of my...

...: " Reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will," "Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them "; and the whole section. 3 Principles of Social .Reconstruction, p. 12: "Only passion can control...

...feelings, these and nothing else."* and Hume, still earlier, asserted, " Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey." 2 Though we may regard the statement as a little sweeping •*• Psychology of Emotions, p. 98. *...

...least uneasiness of an Indian, or person totally unknown to me. . . . Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." Rousseau derived equality from the State of Nature, Paley from the Will of God, Bentham from a mathematical...

...motives of when we talk of the combat 01 passion and of reason, ^e wm_ Eeaaon is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some other...

...standard on which you both agree. What standard? Hume's assertion, 'Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them',24 was deployed in the course of a discussion of moral judgements, judgements which are 'more...

...Hume's 1 l739 l l978]. ll.iti.tii. 4l51 well known assertion that «reason is. and ought only to be the slave of the passions. and can never pretend to any other office than io serve and obey them» can be a solid ground for conceptualising individual autonomy. Feinberg O986....