Horatio Parker
Veteran Member
exactly what are you looking for about the 'nature of rationality?' It's a process. It seems to work. That's how we get moon landings and cancer cures. I'm not sure if it's really the basis of a philosophy, as much as a dependable tool.Yeah, I agree with this. One can be rational without being a rationalist. I guess my hope was for a discussion about the nature of rationality.
I suspect you mean something else entirely, but you would need to flesh that out.
It is indeed a philosophy, and that philosophy is Plato. Nothing exists outside of chaos without the One. Every intelligible thing in an ordered universe is emitted by(it's intelligibilty not its matter) and participates in the One. We use the One to make all distinctions and judgments; it's always around us and we interact with it constantly.
Platonic love is where Platos name pops up the most, and that's usually assumed to mean sexless love. But what Platonic love means is that all love is the same love. We don't all love the same things, but there is only one universal love and when we love we "participate" in that universal love. The One is the same principle, but even more fundamental. Anytime we make a distinction or judgement, the process whereby we decide this is this and that is that is also universal, and that is the One. Paradoxically, every distinct thing is distinct because it participates in the same thing: Oneness. The fundamental source of reason is therefore the focus of spirituality.