Think philosophy is dull? Want personal insight into Hume's claim that reason is and needs be "the slave of the passions"?
Here's a great column-essay in the New York Times which will take care of all of that.
Hume is well-personalized in the story, a lifelong bachelor but one still with human longings, and whether seeking inner equilibrium for himself, or for someone else, in the game of love, working to have his famous maxim realized and accepted.
It's this that is among things that make him the king of the empiricists, and that make him trump his continental rationalist contemporaries.
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