PHLB07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Middle Ages, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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If reason provides a motive for the will, it must be in its function as demonstrative reasoning or: 2. It is not as demonstrative reasoning: 3. It is not as probable reasoning: (if i don"t have any purpose to use information such as arithmetic information, then it won"t be, maybe you have a desire for mathematics, or a desire for truth. There"s nothing about those: 2+2=4 doesn"t in it of itself provide you with a end. You need to bring your own motives or ends of any purpose to me) truths otherwise to guide our behaviour: therefore, 4. Reason does not provide a motive: so, reason doesn"t motivate. It"s not reason alone that is restraining you: 1. Reason alone cannot provide an impulse to act: 2. Only an impulse or a passion can oppose an impulse or a passion. If reason gave rise to an opposing impulse it must be able to have an original in uence: therefore, 4.
