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> Your reasoning is limited by the finite lifespan within which it can fallibly process fallibly registered sense data. Moral, political, and epistemic systems of thought could always *possibly* be revised upon further discoveries and ideas.
> You must accept such unalterable imperfections and incompletions of rationality, adopting your principles and choosing your actions in spite of them - or else wither stagnantly into death.
> This compromise between knowledge and behavior is judged to be reasonably pragmatic - a calculation made by the same power of reason whose imperfection led to this very conclusion.
The rational life undermines itself - and whether a person is disturbed by the bottomlessness of reasons behind reasons behind reasons, or whether a person lives unfazed by the merely accessory nature of rationality, is determined by causes that act independently of that person's power of reason.
No?
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I'm sympathetic - but don't those philosophers choose and live based on a power of rationality which is not ultimately defensible?
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Or this is a supreme divine truth, whose intentions are guided by a perfect rationality, and it is up to man to uphold this rationality. If a man is wise enough, within his lifetime he could uncover the creator's secrets and be acting wholly within perfect reason.
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How is it conceivable that a finite rationality could ever accommodate the contents of an infinite (yes?) rationality?
How could the concept of a supreme, final, no-possible-questioning-beyond-it rationality even be thinkable for us - let alone actually be discoverable - since the only power we have of reasoning about anything is one that can always ask "but why?" of any given explanation?
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