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    A passion cannot be contrary to truth and reason. — Carmelics
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    A passion cannot be contrary to truth and reason.

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    • 1.A passion is an 'original existence', not an idea or mental copy of another object.
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    • 2.Contradiction to truth and reason consists in the disagreement of ideas, considered as copies, with the objects they represent.
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    • 3.Since a passion is not an idea or copy of an object, a passion cannot disagree with any object it represents.
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    • 1.Passions are often constituted by intentional objects: fear is always fear *of* something, requiring a representational content.
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    • 2.If a passion's intentional object is non-existent or misdescribed, the passion inherits that representational failure.
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    • 3.A passion grounded in a false belief about its object (e.g., fearing a non-existent threat) is thus indirectly contrary to reason.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of akrasia and correct desire in the Nicomachean Ethics treats some desires as constitutively rational or irrational.
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    • 2.If practical reason normatively governs which ends are worth pursuing, passions directed at base or incoherent ends can be assessed as contrary to reason.
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    • 3.Hume's restriction of 'reason' to theoretical representation illicitly excludes practical rationality as a legitimate evaluative standard.
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    The third argument claims that a passion is an “original existence”, not an idea, or a mental copy of another object. Contradiction to truth and reason “consists in the disagreement of ideas, consider’d as copies, with those objects, which they represent” (T 2.3.3.5). Therefore, a passion cannot be contrary to truth and reason. Passions cannot, strictly speaking, be evaluated as reasonable or unreasonable, despite our practice of calling passions unreasonable or irrational when they depend in so
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