A Follow Up on the Rule of Reason
Another strong meditation at First Thing's Postmodern Conservative regarding reason. I commented before that "reason" is a means as opposed to an end and, in a nutshell, I believe that continues to be true. Reason is indeed quite necessary to function in the natural world around us, however, it offers no glimpse into the transendant. That is its perennial limit and an important one to keep in mind when phrases like "let reason decide" get thrown around in debate.
"The existential-ethical questions as to who I am and what I am to do are inseparable at once from the political question who we are and from the theoretical or “ontological” question of the way things are."
None of those questions are answered by "reason."
"The existential-ethical questions as to who I am and what I am to do are inseparable at once from the political question who we are and from the theoretical or “ontological” question of the way things are."
None of those questions are answered by "reason."
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