{"id":7971,"date":"2014-05-08T05:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T05:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/08\/how-reasonable-is-it-to-rely-on-reason-alone-2\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T05:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T05:54:22","slug":"how-reasonable-is-it-to-rely-on-reason-alone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/08\/how-reasonable-is-it-to-rely-on-reason-alone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Reasonable is it to Rely on Reason Alone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edith Stein, Finite and Eternal Being<\/em>, tr. Reinhardt, ICS Publications, 2002, p. 22:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reason would turn into unreason if it would stubbornly content itself with what it is able to discover with its own light, barring out everything which is made visible to it by a brighter and more sublime light.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is it unreasonable to rely on reason alone, or is this exactly what reason demands?  If the latter, how could reason validate its demand?  Reason cannot validate itself by appeal to itself:  A circular validation is no validation at all.  So it is by a sort of transrational faith that reason relies on itself and accepts only what it can validate by its own lights.  But if reason allows transrational faith in justification of itself, then it ought to be open to other transrational or suprarational sources of insight.<\/span><\/p>\n

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