Sublime

There is no such thing as Reason (as it was understood by the Enlightenment at least), but there are good reasons and bad ones.

The consequence of failing to make a distinction between reason and what people may regard as “the reasonable” is that if someone disagrees with our notion of “the reasonable,” we can think it appropriate to accuse that person of being “irrational” or “against reason.” The temptation to equate our particular model of reality with “reason” is so

What matters is that without Reasons, we are subject to an entirely utilitarian logic, which doesn’t leave much room for humans or nature. It’s a logic that tells us humans to just be reasonable and submit to compromise, rather than Reasoned and principled. It’s the logic of might makes right, where utilitarian power outweighs greater good.

Trudy explains that “reality” is nothing more than a “collective hunch”

This correspondence between belief and reality is commonly called “truth

The philosopher Erik Wielenberg argues for this, what he calls “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”