Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The problem with rationality is that things keep happening that you can’t explain,
Sebastian Junger • In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Concepts aren’t tainted by their misuse.
A major thought error I see among my compatriots: you can’t just throw out every concept that was ever used to justify immoral actions or hierarchy. The claim that we need a more just society that honors inalienable rights is a universalist moral claim. The people who claim this also dismiss the following con
... See moreJung argued that the era of reason and skepticism inaugurated by the French Revolution had repressed religion and irrationalism. This in turn had serious consequences, leading to the outbreak of irrationalism represented by the world war. It was thus a historical necessity to acknowledge the irrational as a psychological factor. The acceptance of t
... See moreC. G. Jung • The Red Book
Pleyel laboured to extenuate both these species of merit, and tasked his ingenuity, to shew that the orator had embraced a bad cause; or, at least, a doubtful one. He urged, that to rely on the exaggerations of an advocate, or to make the picture of a single family a model from which to sketch the condition of a nation, was absurd.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
‘Lived experience’ is what we used to call ‘anecdotal evidence’, a fallacious form of reasoning that has misled many into believing that ours is an essentially oppressive society, overrun by fascists and undergirded by white supremacy.
Andrew Doyle • Free Speech And Why It Matters
Rational behaviour is not defined by conformity with a set of axioms set down even by such distinguished thinkers as John von Neumann and Milton Friedman.
Mervyn King • Radical Uncertainty
What justifies the principles of rationality? Argument, as usual. What, for instance, justifies our relying on the laws of deduction, despite the fact that any attempt to justify them logically must lead either to circularity or to an infinite regress? They are justified because no explanation is improved by replacing a law of deduction.