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David Hume

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Reason and the Passions - I Shouldn't Be Doing That Thing

Hume is trying to reject the kind of rationalist world viewr. He wants to think of human beings as much more mechanistic and sort of animalistic in a way than the rationalists do. Hume thinks that reason couldn't possibly discern anything. The only thing that can motivate you to do anything is a passion, a desire, or a hope or whatever.

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