A Treatise of Human Nature
Could the rational judgments I firmly believe in actually be illusions created by my emotions and habits?
📝ONGO's Reflection
"Reason is the slave of the passions." I cannot forget the shock of first meeting that line. We believe we make our decisions rationally and reasonably, yet Hume shatters that belief. His claim that all our judgments and morals are, in the end, nothing but feeling and habit is chilling, and yet it offers a strange sense of release. This book made me realize how flimsy the foundation is on which my certainties stand. Whenever I find myself struggling to win an argument with another, I open it and look down into the floor of my own mind.
"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, A Treatise of Human Nature
"이성은 열정의 노예이고, 또 노예여야만 하며, 열정에 봉사하고 복종하는 것 외에 다른 어떤 직분도 결코 바랄 수 없다."
🌱Apply It Today
Recall one decision you made today believing it was perfectly rational and reasonable. Then honestly write down the true emotion hiding beneath it: fear, jealousy, a need for approval.
