Is rationality a delusion? | Sophie Archer, Timothy Williamson and Nina Power
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Age of Reason, Isn't It?
In afghanistan, it's religion that's taking us back away from rationality. I mean, during the french revolution, they used to have festivals of rationality and in playo to take the place of religious festivals. So i think what anand other enlightenment thinkers who were more subtle, were trying to balance those different tendencies and almost like temptations that human beings suffer from. And when people have tried to run ationalist societies, they always end up as horrible, homogeneous hell holes - so we shon't do that either.
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