Tagged: practical reason

Late Modernity: What It Means and Whence It Arose

When theoretical reason is forsaken in favor of practical reason as the human standard — or, to say the same thing, when the theoretical is reduced to the status of handmaiden of the practical — this will necessarily have certain verifiable and visible effects on life in the civilization in which this reversed perspective takes hold. In brief, this reversal reduces thinking to...

Binary Choice

Any deliberative process will eventually work its way down to a binary choice — A vs. B. The danger in all deliberations is that the last two options left at the end of the winnowing will not be the best two options that were available to you at the outset, which is to say that you will overlook or undervalue other alternatives that...