tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post113014352568699316..comments2023-10-29T10:32:36.914-04:00Comments on Philosophy, et cetera: Ought we to be Rational?Richard Y Chappellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16725218276285291235noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-1130219676633649122005-10-25T01:54:00.000-04:002005-10-25T01:54:00.000-04:00Often being rational involves just choosing where ...Often being rational involves just choosing where exactly one wants to be irrational.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-1130211823856636612005-10-24T23:43:00.000-04:002005-10-24T23:43:00.000-04:00I expect you are right.(To digress:One reason to b...I expect you are right.<BR/><BR/>(To digress:<BR/><BR/>One reason to be rational: It is often deeply satisfying to engage in careful rational thought, and to reach neat and elegant solutions thereby, and to make a statement plainly and without bias or ornament.<BR/><BR/>One reason not to be rational: Sometimes neat and elegant solutions are so damnably dry, and plainness and impartiality are so fruitless, that one wishes to do irrational things - any irrational thing, provided it achieves nothing but the wetting of dryness and the growing of fruit - just to make things more lively; in the same way that the moral imperative is sometimes so unremmitingly dry, and so plain, and so careful, and so thoroughly reasonable, that one wants to steal an old lady's wallet, or kick a dog, just to make things more interesting. ) ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com