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Relationship Between Passion and Reason
The passions are a subgroup of impressions which in themselves are used to categorize the “perception of the mind”. Impressions are divided into two groups, Original impressions that represent instinctual senses that all humans are born with. Secondary(reflective) impressions represents passions and arise directly from original impressions. The passions are divided into two categories, "direct passions" which are the raw emotional state human being experience when under intense emotions. "Indirect Passions" are of the same principles of direct passions but have gained additional complexity to them.

Hume makes the distinction that in the relationship between passion and reason, passion shall always supersede the former. He first states that passion is the raw emotion that proceeds in the mind whenever someone is faced with "pleasure and pain". Reason alone cannot provide man the impulse to perform action, but passions that come from emotions that cause us to "avoid or embrace" an object can provide this purpose. Reason than is tool used to understand how the source of the emotion may affect the person themselves and guide them to react to said object.

Reason alone cannot prevent nor stop a passion from proceeding. Reason has no capability of creating the impulse to act, thus if reason alone cannot act, it cannot oppose a passion.

When one feels passion, that is the raw emotional state that all judgments that proceed from that state shall be based off. Thus passion cannot be "reasonable or unreasonable" because all judgments made shall originate from this passion. What can makes a passion unreasonable is not the passion itself but the ideas that form around that emotional state.

Relationship Between Morality and Self Interest
Morality is not based on reason because reason itself does not have the capacity to create action. A system of virtue is favorable to humans because it is created with self interest, if anyone were to join this system, they do so in the pursuit that the system will work for them. Secondarily following this system of morality creates passion of pleasure through the presenting themselves better than others. They receive enjoyment through praise and continue to do so in order to receive further praise. Thus humans through envy shall try to receive the same pleasures as well, leading to a more moral society.