I think you put too much faith in reason.
Reason is a tool, it is only a tool. It provides no guide as to the purpose of life, but rather acts as a tool that can be used effectively to work towards whatever purpose one assigns to life from other than rational determination.
In particular, IMO, morality cannot be derived from reason. Reason can be used to develop a system of morality,if one accepts a few non-rational moral precepts. But freestanding reason, not so much.
“I think you put too much faith in reason.
Reason is a tool, it is only a tool. It provides no guide as to the purpose of life, but rather acts as a tool that can be used effectively to work towards whatever purpose one assigns to life from other than rational determination.
In particular, IMO, morality cannot be derived from reason. Reason can be used to develop a system of morality,if one accepts a few non-rational moral precepts. But freestanding reason, not so much.”
I don’t understand you, and I really want to. Are you saying that there is no logical purpose to life?
What do you mean by freestanding reason?
Standing free from what?
What other faculty of man besides reason (logic, identification, integration) is there?
You say reason can be used to work towards irrational ends. Isn’t that a contradiction.
Why can’t morality be derived by reason?
I would really, really like answers to these questions and to my initial question because whenever I ask them the answer I get is that reason is not sufficient to understand reality. Why? No one has ever given an answer to this question and their answer is to attack reason. Are you saying that man was created by a rational God without the means to perceive reality?