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Hume's account of Reason and Passion In the Treatise of Human Nature, Hume argues that reason is a slave to passion by attempting to dispose of three traditional philosophical beliefs. He argues that reason cannot motivate us to act, that reason cannot combat passion and that a passion cannot be called unreasonable. However, Hume also goes back and highlights pieces of the traditional arguments that he believes to be reasonable in certain contexts. After briefly outlining his contrary ideas, I will focus more on Hume's positive views towards the argument. After this I will pose a critical query of Hume's work, questioning the separation of reason and passion. In order to understand reason and passion, we must first understand their origin. Hume explains that all experienced psychological phenomena - including everything that is involved in thinking and feeling - are called perceptions of the mind. Perceptions of the mind...

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