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Really?!

Oct. 30th, 2011 at 3:32 PM
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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."


--David Hume,
Scottish philosopher, economist and historian
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[identity profile] wytchcroft.livejournal.com
Oct. 30th, 2011 09:38 pm (UTC)
"the sleep of reason breeds monsters" goya.
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[personal profile] med_cat
Oct. 31st, 2011 07:09 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I'm more inclined to agree with him than with Mr Hume...
[identity profile] rubynye.livejournal.com
Nov. 1st, 2011 12:34 am (UTC)
I think Hume may have been trying to argue against Straw Vulcans there. (Not that I agree with him.)
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[personal profile] med_cat
Nov. 1st, 2011 12:42 am (UTC)
Yes, perhaps he was...but that kind of argument is rather going to the other extreme, I think.

"Aurea meditas", no? ;)
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