RICK:
> > "Once you have
> > reason to believe in the truth of something you are no longer taking it
on
> > faith, you are taking it on reason. Once you are taking something on
> > reason, there's no room left for faith."
>
JON:
> "Of course, you are required to have faith in reason."
RICK:
Clever, clever (lousy paradoxs).
Of course as someone else suggested (maybe Peter?), when viewed correctly
the two are practically indistiguishable. What I posted should only hold
for those who acknowledge a duality between faith/reason or faith/knowledge.
I myself opt for a system inspired by the rhetorician Chaim Perelman who
claimed in his book The New Rhetoric that the best reasoning, "...prohibits
the assumption of uncompromising and irreducible philosophical
oppositions... of dualism of reason and imagination, of knowledge and
opinion, of irrefutable self-evidence and deceptive will, of universally
accepted objectivity and an incommunicable subjectivity, or a reality
binding on everyone and values that purely individual...."
If you haven't read this guy yet I highly recommend picking up something by
him. He's one of the foremost rhetorical thinkers of the last hundred years
and sometimes makes claims and puts forth ideas so similar to RMP's (even in
their expression--- sometimes the two get so similar in language it's
downright suspicious) that I feel reasonably confident in asserting that
RMP must be familiar with some of Perelman's works--- or something
derivative of them.
Rick
>
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