 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1815 - 474 pages
...ehoose my total ruin to prevent the 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 ean never pretend to any other offiee, than to serve and obey them." If we take the word reason to... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 380 pages
...sense. We speak not strictly 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,...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
...choose my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or of a person wholly unknown to me." That " reason is, and ought only to be, the slave...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
...sense. We speak not strictly and philosophically, when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, ^and ought only to be, the slave of the...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
...my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or of a person wholly unknown to me :" That " reason is, and ought only to be, the slave...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... | |
 | Ritter - Philosophy - 1853 - 680 pages
...somme passion or affection. Hum. nat. II p. 245 sqq. 2) Ess. II p. 215. 3) Hum. nat. II p. 247 sq, Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. 4) Ib. II p. 248 sqq. 5) Ib. II p. 308 sqq.; ess. H p. 120 sqq. S. 6. îtyilof. xii. -22 bofj bíe... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 572 pages
...sense. We speak not strictly and philosophically, when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the...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, English - 1854 - 568 pages
...speak not strictly and philosophically, when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Keason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions,...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
...speak not strictly and 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
...offensive paradoxes are put forward, for the sake of showing ingenuity in defending them ; for instance, that " Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave...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,... | |
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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. 
