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    It is not the case that A passion cannot be contrary to truth and reason.

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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