The Role of Reason in Politics

Wilson Craft did not see the political project as finding a way to carve out a space in which reason is the anchor. For Wilson Craft, reason and rationality were more like a journey. They weren't an anchoring device. You don't find the geometric principles and then build on those. These are all lived experiences and they coexist all the time with forms of passion, with forms of emotion. The challenge therefore in politics and in life is not to try and find a way of organising our society so that the reason is there in the background making the rest of it possible. It's to find a way for reason and passion to feed off each other and allow us to develop and grow