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Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning QUOTES

Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning QUOTES

1 " We thus combine unreasonable optimism about what people might be like, with unreasonable hatred of them when they are not like that (pp269) "

― Simon Blackburn , Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning

2 " ... consider the many ways of failing that await the poet who makes his or her own consciousness of emotions into the subject of a poem, instead of the emotion itself. "

― Simon Blackburn , Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning