Steven Pinker Dialogue
The Munk Debates Podcast
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The Importance of Rationality
i'd like to hear your refutation of why we shouldn't lump a belief in the importance of rationality and these kind of rules of reasoning into, at times, a legitimate condemnation of vested power structures. Well, there absolutely should be criticism of unjustified power structures... But to make that case that can't go against ration ity, because if itself is rational, then its actual power comes from that very fact. And so the one absolutely ought to question subvert be the imposition beliefs by brute force, by power. That is the application of rationality. Its not trary to it. Now, some people may claim to be rational in imposing dogma or privilege or advantage, but they are
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