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[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason ]

Full Idea

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.

Gist of Idea

Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions

Source

David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature [1739], II.III.3)

Book Ref

Hume,David: 'A Treatise of Human Nature', ed/tr. Mossner,Ernest C. [Penguin 1969], p.462