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The Devil’s Whore: constraining reason to its proper boundaries
6. January 2010 by admin.
In modern society, one claim to progress is the alleged triumph of reason in many realms of daily living. But the truth is that while reason allows humans to behave sensibly according to the world they are presented with, it completely loses function and ironically presents itself as a regressive danger in one of two areas: when it is used to explain the origins of the universe, and when it is considered supreme in the dictation of morality. This essay will focus on the latter problem.
When the “rational” person considers reason to be the foundation of morality, what they find is known as the Heinz Dilemma. In this dilemma, a man has a wife who gets cancer, and he has the option of either stealing from a selfish person to pay for her surgery, or letting her die while not stealing from someone else. According to the rational person, Heinz has six moral directions to compare (thanks to Wikipedia): Read the rest of this entry »
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