Critique: Reason is the slave of the passions

nal agents or forces. Therefore, if a person experiences being hot, he/she would be receiving the action of the external force of heat. This view on the exactuation of the constituents of passion would predict any action taken by an external force against a person as resulting in the creation of a passion. Once we understand that we are constantly producing passions because of the omnipresent nature of external forces, we can proceed to examine the categories into which passions break down. There are two main types of passions: calm and violent. These two tiers are divided by the type of reaction produced inside of a person, due to certain external forces.
             The calm passions represent general feelings of pain and pleasure. For example, if a person witnesses a murder, he/she is expected to have a resulting passion of pain, but if a person listens to a beautiful song, he/she is expected to have a resulting passion of
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