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Or, now I think about it, the most rationalistic of philosophers, David Hume:
"every quality of the mind, which is useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others, communicates a pleasure to the spectator, engages his esteem ... is admitted under the honourable denomination of virtue or merit"
Hume thought that reason was the servant of emotion.
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Date: 2005-12-01 04:59 pm (UTC)Or, now I think about it, the most rationalistic of philosophers, David Hume:
"every quality of the mind, which is useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others, communicates a pleasure to the spectator, engages his esteem ... is admitted under the honourable denomination of virtue or merit"
Hume thought that reason was the servant of emotion.