The University of Edinburgh cancels David Hume

[PegE]

He must have said some really accurate things.

[Brave New World]

Originally Posted by momonkey

I'd like to criticize their decision, but...


"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.

Reason might be the slave to passion, but passion is an emotions and not a person.

Some of Hume's work would not be acceptable today however that doesn't mean we can not learn from it.

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by Brave New World

Reason might be the slave to passion, but passion is an emotions and not a person.

Some of Hume's work would not be acceptable today however that doesn't mean we can not learn from it.

Unfortunately Hume was born before his insight could be fully appreciated.

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Originally Posted by Brave New World

Reason might be the slave to passion, but passion is an emotions and not a person.

Some of Hume's work would not be acceptable today however that doesn't mean we can not learn from it.

Hume was countering contemporary philosophers who claimed reason was all. And I think he was right that, however rational we may strive to be, passions do ultimately drive us, so it's important to cultivate a positive, productive attitude in life.

[ottomobeale]

Shrug. I see that SJW idiocy has infected the UK as much as the US.

[michiganmoon]

So a preeminent philosopher that had impact on others like Adam Smith should be canceled for a guy who killed himself with a lethal dose of Fentanyl that has a rap sheet that includes putting a gun into a pregnant woman's belly, because that is less offensive in the year 2020 than what Hume said in the 1700s.