Hume also attempts in the Treatise to establish the other anti-rationalist thesis, that virtue is not the same as reasonableness and vice is not contrary to reason.
Collins, for example, claims that the distinction between reasonable propositions and "things above, and things contrary to reason" is the distinction that theologians use on behalf of mysteries and theological contradictions against those who say that they can only believe what they understand.
When Hume claims... that such preferences are not contrary to reason, he is forgetting, or mis-stating, his normative beliefs.
It is contrary to reason and to justice to require that people lay aside their scruples at the precise moment when those scruples are put to the test.
" 'Tis not contrary to reason," Hume once said, "to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger".
As he colourfully put it, "Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger".
" 'Tis not contrary to reason," he wrote, "to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger".
Some argue that our reasons to be prudent and moral stem directly from the fact that we are rational ¿ that it is contrary to reason to ignore our own future interests, or the interests of other people.
The Deistic philosopher John Toland (1670 1722), in his Christianity Not Mysterious (1696), sought to show that "there is nothing in the Gospels contrary to reason, nor above it"; any doctrine that is really above reason would be meaningless to humans.
"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger," the 18th century philosopher David Hume noted, and here we see his contemplation reified.
Panahi is a reasonable director; he depicts the exaggerations and absurdities of the regime and the contortions of behavior in response to rules and laws that are silly, contrary to reason.
