The Importance of Ratio

In the modern world, we have moved more towards thinking of Ratio as the chief and only rational faculty that we need. If you were to pick up a modern philosophy textbook on metaphysics or even on epistemology, how can we know anything? It's not going to spend a whole lot of time about the fact that human beings need to go and spend time contemplating the universe in order to receive things. Now it sounds super hippy dippy, right? You're going to say the higher point of man is just to receive the universe. Let the flower work upon you. All we mean when we talk about feelings is what does the flower mean to you? And if you contemplate it