 | David Hume - 1817 - 380 pages
...and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. 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. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some other... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 322 pages
...least uneasiness of an Indian, or of a person wholly unknown to me." That " 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." If we take the word reason to mean what common use, both of philosophers, and of the vulgar, has made... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 592 pages
...and philosophically, when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. 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. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some other... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...least uneasiness of an Indian, or of a person wholly unknown to me :" That " 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." If we take the word rcasun to mean what common use, both of philosophers, and of the vulgar, hath made... | |
 | Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart - Free will and determinism - 1843 - 632 pages
...least uneasiness of an Indian, or of a person wholly unknown to me." That " 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." If we take the word reason to mean what common use, both of philosophers and of the vulgar, hath made... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 572 pages
...and philosophically, when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. 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. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some other... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 564 pages
...philosophically, iffhan^wa ~ialk of _the combat of passio|]t.and af reason. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any ot^rjOj^^j^aJL»AQL §§IX£^^^T^eX them, As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may... | |
 | Edward Tagart - Hume, David, 1711-1776 - 1855 - 524 pages
...for the sake of showing ingenuity in defending them ; for instance, that " 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." In the Essays he forbore their repetition. In the Treatise he is a sort of hard, uncompromising necessarian,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1863 - 542 pages
...least uneasiness of an Indian, or of a person wholly unknown to me ;" that " 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." [479] If we take the word reason to mean what common use, both of philosophers and of the vulgar, hath... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 544 pages
...of human action according to Hume. Reason, constituting no objects, affords no motives. ' It is only the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.'3 To any logical thinker who accepted Locke's doctrine of reason, as having no other function... | |
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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. 
