I read this a few times and I’m struck by what I perceive to be a misapprehension of the problem. I am increasingly convinced that it is the obsession with reason — unmoored from a larger transcendent principle — that has wrought out current woes in the current antiracism era.https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter/status/1358787897168719876 …
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Replying to @cvaldary
What would this mean? When reason was “tethered” to something higher (god, scripture, tradition, authority), it was distorted and used as a weapon. This has been tried. Put X above reason and it will be abused.
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It hasn't always worked but it definitely worked during the Civil Rights Movement
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Yup. The atheistic regimes of the 20th century tried the "reason alone" program and it was a human disaster.
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I’d take it one step further: there is no “reason alone” program. It always has a master, as Hume well knew. Question is whether that master is recognized and acknowledged.
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