 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 592 pages
...destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. 'Tis as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 572 pages
...destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason t > prefer even my own acknowledged... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1863 - 552 pages
...the whole world tu the scratching of my finger ;" that " it is not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an...Indian, or of a person wholly unknown to me ;" that " reasou is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - England - 1876 - 496 pages
...destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person totally unknown to me.' 3 Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a combat between reason... | |
 | English literature - 1880 - 612 pages
...destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me.' Morality, therefore, is not in any sense an object of reason, but depends... | |
 | Samuel Harris - God - 1896 - 592 pages
...destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me." * He means that man must follow his passions and desires and that the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1906 - 448 pages
...and flat. Rather the wide survey of human nature which led Hume to declare, with some exaggeration, that reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, suggests a different conclusion. It is, of course, possible to limit the conception of emotion by verbal... | |
 | Reginald Arthur Percy Rogers - Ethics - 1911 - 338 pages
...of I the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis ' not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me ; 'tis as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - Philosophy - 1922 - 400 pages
...shocking the susceptibilities of the conservative and the sober-minded, startles us with the remark that " Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions." 1 This doctrine, taken as the average reader is almost inevitably impelled to take it, seems worthy... | |
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Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me. 
