T 3.1.1.7
SBN 457 · cited directly by 0 papers, reached by 1 more through page or section ranges
No one, I believe, will deny the justness of this inference; nor is there any other means of evading it, than by denying that principle, on which it is founded. As long as it is allow'd, that reason has no influence on our passions and actions, 'tis in vain to pretend, that morality is discover'd only by a deduction of reason. An active principle can never be founded on an inactive; and if reason be inactive in itself, it must remain so in all its shapes and appearances, whether it exerts itself in natural or moral subjects, whether it considers the powers of external bodies, or the actions of rational beings.
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| Ainslie 1999 | (T 457) T 3.1.1 (5 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …s direct. At any rate, Hume thinks that the moral sentiments are able to influence action (T 457), and thus they must… |
| III.i.1 T 3.1.1 (30 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …uments about moral judgement in the Section "Moral distinctions not deriv'd from reason" (III.i.1) take on a new ligh… |