Re:Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning
by stcredzero on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:23PM
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Rationality is just a tool, which can be used or misused. That said, it has a really impressive list of accomplishments when it is used well. The rationalist view and rationalist methods have created more wealth and alleviated more human suffering than most any mystic of the world pre-1800s would ever have imagined.
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Re:Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning
by tathougies on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:13PM
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> That said, it has a really impressive list of accomplishments when it is used well
Of course it does. Almost every person in the history of mankind will have claimed to act rationally, including the scientist inventing better means of wheat production on fewer acres, as well as the voodoo witch doctor trying to do the same thing.
By necessity, whatever works is going to claim to have been inspired by rationality.
Re:Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning
by stcredzero on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:32PM
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whatever works is going to claim to have been inspired by rationality
Everything that works turns out to work through rational principles subject to the scientific method, enabling improvement through engineering, often enabling the creation of wealth.
Funny that.
Re:Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning
by throwaway2048 on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @04:08AM
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People would do well to remember that the ideology of the Nazis had deep roots in rationalism and ideas about the enlightenment.
Rationality is not an unmitigated good when not tempered with humanity and empathy for others.
A decent discussion on this topic:
https://old.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/6k2f7d/how_d...
Re:Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning
by stcredzero on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:23PM
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Rationality is not an unmitigated good when not tempered with humanity and empathy for others.
No disagreement at all.