It is interesting to track connotations of word 'reason' over history & doing so is probably one of the most revealing things abt a society.
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From faith & common sense on one side and culturally constructed subjectivity on the other, a return to folk wisdom is threatened.
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To say 'I advocate for reason' can feel naive & dogmatic and some people who say this are naive & dogmatic but reason itself isn't.
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A belief that reasoning is easy &the process unaffected by personal & cultural bias is naive & indicates a need for measures to reduce these
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A belief that reason can work on an intellectual abstract level which ignores local knowledge & is closed to people of faith is also nuts.
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But good criticisms of reason are seldom criticising reason itself but attitudes around it which are limiting its effectiveness.
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Because reason works & the only alternative is irrationalism and that doesn't.
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