Is rationality a delusion? | Sophie Archer, Timothy Williamson and Nina Power
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Importance of Reason and Emotion
i think it's often very disingenuous when we seek to present our opponents as being motivated by extra rational concerns alone. I would say that a narrow image of rationality, for example, the idea that human beings are only fundamentally calculating is not the sum total of how we think about things. And so i would also defend the idea of reason as having a speculative element, which is to say, asking questions that we can't immediately answer. May be ask s about the cosmos, about the nature of our soul, about whether god exists or not, whether our soul is immortal.
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