Ep. 103: Rationalism and the Reasons of the Heart
Young Heretics
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The Real Wages of Pure Rationaty, Pure Cold Abstraction
Sally Kohn: Letting go of all your idols for ever is going to lead you into madness. She says we are rationalists who focus on believing what's actually true, not what our culture tells us is true or what it's popular to say is true. If a man thinks he's a woman, then we might, and pathetically wish he were a woman, she writes. But if we're going to be rationalists then we've got to call him a man and take the consequences,.Kohn adds that an alternative categoriation system is not an error; borders are not objectively true or false.
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