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....I often feel that the faculty of reason is a horrible thing ー a terror. It is the monster in the horror show of life.And so, when rereading this post, wish it had ended with the word "reason" --
It's not 'pure' reason that is so horrible, but craftiness, which I guess is reason in the service of motive.
Pure? Isn’t the world just a mixture of impurities? As Guston (sorta) pointed out?? Isn’t reason a product of evolution? A tool for survival. Rather than purely for reasonableness…. So it seems particularly impure….
....I often feel that the faculty of reason is a horrible thing ー a terror. It is the monster in the horror show of life.
ReplyDeleteAnd so, when rereading this post, wish it had ended with the word "reason" --
It's not 'pure' reason that is so horrible, but craftiness, which I guess is reason in the service of motive.
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ReplyDeletePure? Isn’t the world just a mixture of impurities? As Guston (sorta) pointed out??
Isn’t reason a product of evolution? A tool for survival. Rather than purely for reasonableness…. So it seems particularly impure….