Political Science · Western Political Thought
'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.' Which thinker said this?
ADavid Hume ✓ Correct
BJohn Locke
CJ.S. Mill
DRousseau
Correct answer: (A) David Hume — This line was said by David Hume.
Explanation
★This line was said by David Hume.
★Hume held that reason serves and obeys the passions.
★He was a leading figure of the empiricist tradition.
★He stood with John Locke and George Berkeley in that tradition.
★He gave great weight to feeling in guiding our actions.
★So reason for Hume is the servant of passion, not its master.
★Hence the line belongs to David Hume.
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