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Plato, in the Phaedrus, uses the metaphor of a chariot pulled by two horses; one represents rational and moral impulses, the other irrational passions or desires.
Plato thinks that the soul should be a composite of our passions and our reason, but he also makes it clear that harmony is to be found under the supremacy of reason.
In the eighteenth century, David Hume argued that this picture of a struggle between reason and the passions is misleading.
Reason is, he famously wrote, “the slave of the passions.”
Among what he called passions are our fellow-feeling or sympathy for others, and our concern for our own long-term interests.
On Hume’s view, what other philosophers take to be a conflict between reason and emotion is really a conflict between these “calm passions” and our more violent and often imprudent passions.
But today’s traumatized polities, vulnerable to passions and prone to suspicion, may want to go further.
We have always preferred caution, compromise, and evolution to disruption and appeals to fleeting public passions.
No political system can perfectly translate the public will into policy, and the public will is often confused, misinformed, or swayed by dangerous passions.
As a result, randomistas can say little about the big issues that inflame passions and around which grand narratives are built.
In fact, Johnson, as a scholar of the classical world, must be aware that the model of the upper-class demagogue gaining power by stirring up the angry passions of aggrieved plebeians goes back to the late Roman Republic, when people’s tribunes attacked the patrician Senate, often by inciting violent mobs.
All these passions, ever waxing or waning, did not interfere with her carrying on very widespread and complicated relations with the Court and Society.
But from the time she took Karenin under her special protection after his misfortune – from the time she exerted herself in his house, labouring for his welfare – she felt that all her other passions were unreal and that she now truly loved only Karenin.
Il fait des passions!
You saw that je fais des passions...[I have love affairs.]
Such desperate passions!
Suppose we, with our passions and thoughts, were left without the conception of God a Creator, and without a conception of what is good, and without an explanation of moral evil!'Try to build up anything without these conceptions!
The only drawback to all this happiness was Mother Brulé, who screamed with all the rage of an old revolutionary, having to avenge the death of her man on the masters, and little Lydie, who pocketed, in the shape of frequent blows, the passions of the family.
This was the last straw, and it resulted in arousing public passions all over again.
You don't realize that various accidents, caused by collisions with your underwater machine, have aroused public passions on those two continents.
In their unconcerned looks was the calm of passions daily satiated, and through all their gentleness of manner pierced that peculiar brutality, the result of a command of half-easy things, in which force is exercised and vanity amused—the management of thoroughbred horses and the society of loose women.
All her immediate surroundings, the wearisome country, the middle-class imbeciles, the mediocrity of existence, seemed to her exceptional, a peculiar chance that had caught hold of her, while beyond stretched, as far as eye could see, an immense land of joys and passions.
Why, at least, was not her husband one of those men of taciturn passions who work at their books all night, and at last, when about sixty, the age of rheumatism sets in, wear a string of orders on their ill-fitting black coat?
A man, at least, is free; he may travel over passions and over countries, overcome obstacles, taste of the most far-away pleasures.
They need by turns to dream and to act, the purest passions and the most turbulent joys, and thus they fling themselves into all sorts of fantasies, of follies."
Why cry out against the passions?
She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.
A giddiness seemed to her to detach itself from this mass of existence, and her heart swelled as if the hundred and twenty thousand souls that palpitated there had all at once sent into it the vapour of the passions she fancied theirs.
But an infinity of passions may be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a small space.
So he gave up his flute, exalted sentiments, and poetry; for every bourgeois in the flush of his youth, were it but for a day, a moment, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of lofty enterprises.
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