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Rational or irrational?
Explain.
If you are asking about nature, and not about how a particular individual acts in a particular situation, then human nature is rational. The reason is that we have the faculty for conceptual awareness, i.e. the rational faculty.
Of course, some people don't use this faculty much, and such people are irrational -- by choice or ignorance, not by nature.
eudaimonia,
Mark
I wouldn´t know why to determine the "nature" of man as one of the ends of a dualism both ends of which are permanently observable in humans.Rational or irrational?
Explain.
Mark, supposed I rephrased what you said this way: a human has the capacity to be either rational or not, and so human nature includes the capacity for acting both rationally and irrationally.
Do you feel that this differs from what you said?
I wouldn´t know why to determine the "nature" of man as one of the ends of a dualism both ends of which are permanently observable in humans.
Actually, I don´t see any point in determining anything as the nature of men, anyways. For what purpose? It just doesn´t make any sense, except when for whatever reason we want to compare man to something else:
Compared to rocks or birds man is pretty rational. Compared to actually pretty much everything man is pretty rational.
Then again, man is pretty emotional, too, compared to all these things and beings.
What´s the nature of man - to sleep or to work?
How can irrationality be a faculty, as opposed to the failure to use a faculty?
eudaimonia,
Mark
Man is either acting in a rational way, or rationalizing. This old saying is revealing:
"A boy is a boy.
Two boys are half a boy;
and three boys are no boy at all."
owg
I believe the saying is implying that as individuals we can be rational, but as a group we become less and less human. Which I agree with.
But would you say irrationality is a fundamentality that is unavoidable? Sometimes philosophizing does not have to pertain to the context of the rationalists, take the foundation of religion(s) for example. Maybe sometimes the illogical is just as important as the rational.I live in Atlanta, so I know lots of people who can't even be rational on their own.
But I'm a little confused by what owg is saying about people either being rational or rationalizing.
But would you say irrationality is a fundamentality that is unavoidable? Sometimes philosophizing does not have to pertain to the context of the rationalists, take the foundation of religion(s) for example. Maybe sometimes the illogical is just as important as the rational.
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