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David Hume

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Is There a Purpose?

Helen beby's purpose was surely to present a very provocative thesis about how reason and passion relate to each other. On hume's view, the passions are in the driving seat. Reason is subservient to them. Book one of the treatise is a demonstration of how reason at uses own language, almost destroys itself. At its own hands. It turns out that the passions are essential to who we are. The passions are the major determinance of human life;reason ends up having quite a subservient role to them.

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