Slave of the passions

Jonathan Haidt, who I mentioned yesterday, gets a mention in a column today by David Brooks. It’s a quote that’s also a rather neat restatement of Davd Hume’s dictum that “reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”

The emotions are, in fact, in charge of the temple of morality, and … moral reasoning is really just a servant masquerading as a high priest.

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