[lit-ideas] Re: Reason and Politics
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:17:36 -0330
Quoting Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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?
>
W: The problem facing pluralist democracies is one of coping fairly with a
variety of different forms of "reason" without passing judgement on the truth
or rationality of the beliefs involved. That imperative is of course itself a
product of reason, but of "reason" of a very distinctive sort. It must remain
strictly formal and procedural in order to maintain its universal status.
Eric:
> Just asking.
W: Good question.
Walter C. Okshevsky
MUN
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