Hume on Trump’s “reason”

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.[1]

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740)

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[1] David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. Ernest C. Mossner (Toronto: Penguin, 1985), p. 462.