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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.


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Hume advocated a compatibilist theory of free will that proved extremely influential on subsequent moral philosophy. Of Miracles section X of the Enquiry was often publiDavid Humed separately. Here he reports that at the age of eighteen "there seem'd to be open'd up to me a new Scene of Thought.

Without direct impressions of a metaphysical "self" he concluded that humans have no actual conception of the self only of a bundle of sensations associated with the self. 26 April] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher historian economist and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and scepticism. Hume advocated a compatibilist theory of free will that proved extremely influential on subsequent moral philosophy.

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