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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Passion is an emotion. I'm not at all sure consciousness thought, much less intentional action, is possible without it. David Hume believed that the will is the slave of the passions.
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Hume claimed that
reason was the slave of the passions, not will. This was because he felt the will could be motived by passion or by reason, but not by reason in opposition to passion. He was also generally the exception is this belief. (see
here.)
I don't know if you can get from there to the
will being the slave of the passions.
Troy