Are You Born With Unruly Passions?

The point of being an educated person is to make sure that you train your rational faculty so that it's strong enough to put down the unruly passions. To be enlightened, one needs to direct their passions away from parochial concerns and towards universal love toward a race. The Enlightenment teachers would say this: If you never were educated, if you don't, yof your rational facultyis not up. Self improvement also has everything to do with reason,. educating oneself, controlling the passions, because that's what true improvement is.