The moral life is a struggle between reason and feelings.
The moral life is a struggle between reason and feelings.
Hume thinks that this common idea is based on a faulty view of reason.
Reason is the discovery of truth. An action or desire violates reason only by involving a factual error or a choice of insufficient means. When we discover such errors, we immediately and without a struggle change our action or desire.
The moral life is a struggle, rather, between different sorts of feelings.
The moral life is a struggle between reason and feelings.
Hume thinks that this common idea is based on a faulty view of reason.
Reason is the discovery of truth. An action or desire violates reason only by involving a factual error or a choice of insufficient means. When we discover such errors, we immediately and without a struggle change our action or desire.
The moral life is a struggle, rather, between different sorts of feelings.