For those of you who enjoyed thinking about Question #1 this week (concerning rationality) I would just like to share a brilliant but obscure quote from Hume:
"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
This is to say that for Hume, unlike for Descartes and the Rationalists, there most certainly are limits to what reason can accomplish - and indeed certain instances (see quote, above) in which reason appears to be quite, well, irrational.
Clara
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