PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Innatism, Dialectic
29 Apr 2016
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We"ve looked at: hume on causation and induction, necessity and governing freedom and responsibility. Book ii part iii section iii next time. For hume, passions are essentially any desire you have; good or bad. All of plato"s appetites are passions, but only a subset of the passions (*next class) Passions can be innate or acquired (upbringing makes a difference) Reason if a slave to the passions, and it ought not attend to any other office but to serve and obey them . Reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will; passion is required: reason gives you advice on how to achieve your passions, but you aren"t motivated without the passions. Reason [alone] can never oppose passion in the direction of the will; passion is required. Therefore, reason is a slave to the passions. There are 2 ways in which reason exerts itself/works:
