Shawn
Shawn
Shawn
Rational people are not always good, nor are all rational minds, acts, etc. So, I'm not sure what you're aiming at here. — creativesoul
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I have no idea what this means. To me rational is an adjective referring to the process via which one decides or concludes something. One can even rationally decide something that, it turns out, is incorrect. This happens in science, policework, everyday life. Good things would either refer to things that are Good in and of themselves, whatever that means or they are things that are good for someone, from their perspective. To me this is all apples and bicycles.Let's take for example the notion that;
What is good is rational. — Wallows
Qwex
Banno
Banno
isn't rationality an intrinsic feature of human nature? — Wallows
Shawn
That's an enlightenment notion, probably due to Kant. Too much of what is human is irrational for rationality to be considered intrinsic to humanity. But that's not to say that rationality is a virtue, perhaps to be striven towards.
One might be reifying it if one were to talk of it's being extracted, divided, given away.
But attempting to define what it is to be rational does not seem to me to be reification. Being rational as, among other things, following an argument to it's logical conclusion. No reification there. — Banno
Qwex
Shawn
That dichotomy is inherently inadequate for taking proper account of that which is both — creativesoul
Enrique
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