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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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Originally Posted by troymc
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.
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You're right, of course. Another shining example of what happens when something is posted quickly from memory and not checked against the original source.
.....Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
..........— David Hume (1739-40), Scottish philosopher and historian.
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Book II: OF THE PASSIONS, PART III: Of the will and direct passions, SECT. III: Of the influencing motives of the will.
However, I'm still not at all sure consciousness thought, much less intentional action, is possible without passion or similar emotions. It may work for Vulcans, but humans are wired differently.