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Steven Pinker on Rationality, Psychology, Language, & More

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

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Is Reason a Slave to the Passions?

The definition is related to the famous statement of David Hume that reason must always be a slave to the passions. It is easily misunderstood as saying well we have no choice but to you know to splurge to blow our stack, he says. In fact a large part of the latter part of your book is saying we are rational beings but what we're not ultimately We're using rationality in a local sense and it doesn't get us what we need want globally.

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