원서독해(The function of Reason) 1-2-1

 

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Various phrases suggest themselves, which recall the special controversies depending upon the determination of the true function of Reason:

Faith and Reason :  Reason and Authority :  Reason and Intuition : Criticism and Imagination : Reason, Agency, Purpose : Scientific Methodology : Philosophy and the Sciences : Rationalism, Scepticism, Dogmatism : Reason and Empiricism : Pragmatism.

Each of these phrases suggests the scope of Reason, and the limitation of that scope.

Also the variety of topics included in them shows that we shall not exhaust our subject by the help of a neat little verbal phrase.

Yet in despite of this warning to avoid a mere phrase, i will start with a preliminary definition of the function of Reason, a definition to be illustrated, distorted, and enlarged, as this discussion proceeds.

The function of Reason is to promote the art of life.

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