[lit-ideas] Re: Reason and Politics

  • From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:15:18 -0400

WO: Democracy ... and rationality as a system of universal imperatives, are obligated to disregard the truth or rightness of any religious view.

Eric: Is it rational to disregard the content of a belief
system [Satanism] that worships evil? Especially since that content involves the overthrow of rationality itself, thereby eliminating the furtherance of rational investigation?


Maybe that's a roundabout way of asking whether reason has a rational responsibility for its own continuation?


Just asking.

------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html

Other related posts: