Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 7
Mind/Hume: the purpose is to make passion socially acceptable.
I 24
It is always about the probability calculus and rules.
I 117
Mind/reason/Hume: the mind reflects the past on the principle of experience. Imagination: imagination reflects the future according to the principle of habit. Belief: belief is the link between these two dimensions of the spirit. Time: time transforms itself when the subject constitutes itself in the mind.
>Mind/Hume.
I 21
Reason/Hume: reason does not determine the action - affects determine action!
I 25
Treatise/Hume: it is not contrary to reason to want the downfall of the world in order to prevent a crack in one's own finger.
I 26
Reason/Hume: reason is applied to a world that had previously been there. ((s) So reason does not create the world because reason, practice and morality are indifferent - not because of the circumstances).
I 40
Reason/Hume: reason is sedated affection; it makes us judge the improper components in our affections. True duality exists not between affect (nature) and reason (the artificial), but between the overall context of nature and the spirit that affects this relationship.
Association: must not be sedated.
>Association/Hume.
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Stegmüller IV 283
Reason/morality/ethics/Hume/Stegmüller: reason can never be the motive for or against an action. Passions and preferences are logically independent of conclusions. However, there are practical and reasonable preferences. Mackie: dispassion also does not allow a clear view of things.
>Morals/Hume.