Reason, deliberation, and the passions

Adrian Blau

Reason, deliberation, and the passions

Adrian Blau

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This chapter rejects the common view that Hobbes saw reason as the slave of the passions. For Hobbes, the real conflict is not between reason and the passions but between our real good (self-preservation) and some apparent goods. Reason, operating before deliberation, can inform deliberation by showing us when apparent goods undermine our real good. Reason can thus alter the images and opinions which our passions choose between. For Hobbes, reason is not as the slave of the passions but the counsellor of the passions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes
Editors	A.P. Martinich, Kinch Hoekstra
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	9
Pages	195-220
Number of pages	26
Publication status	Published - Mar 2016

Keywords

Hobbes
passions
emotion
reason
deliberation
instrumental rationality
rationality

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