The Politics of Rationality: Reason Through Occidental History by Charles P. Webel

Author:Charles P. Webel [Webel, Charles P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy, History & Theory, Social Science, Political Science, Political, Research, General
ISBN: 9781134490370
Google: 6kVJAgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 19350127
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

Hume and Rousseau: The Supremacy of Passion Over Reason

Nothing is more usual in philosophy, and even in common life, than to talk of the combat of passion and reason, to give the preference to reason, and assert that men are only so far virtuous as they conform themselves to its dictates…. The eternity, invariableness, and divine origin of the former have been displayed to the best advantage. The blindness, unconstancy, and deceitfulness of the latter have been so strongly insisted upon. In order to show the fallacy of all this philosophy, I shall endeavor to prove first, that reason alone can never be a motive for any action of the will; and secondly, that it can never oppose passion in the direction of the will.

Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature

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