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Conclusion to part I

Da Fonseca-1991-10-25-Cambridge University Press eBooks
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So, the message of the eighteenth–century ‘enlightened skeptics’ is clear: ‘nothing tends more to disturb our understanding, and precipitate us into any opinions, however unreasonable, than their connection with passion’ (THN,321). Or, as the poet finely put it: ‘Are passions, then, the pagans of the soul? Reason alone baptized?’

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So, the message of the eighteenth–century ‘enlightened skeptics’ is clear: ‘nothing tends more to disturb our understanding, and precipitate us into any opinions, however unreasonable, than their connection with passion’ (THN,321). Or, as the poet finely put it: ‘Are passions, then, the pagans of the soul? Reason alone baptized?’

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