RE: Scientism & Philosophical Arguments
December 18, 2015 at 2:06 pm
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2015 at 2:06 pm by Whateverist.)
(December 16, 2015 at 7:33 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: That said, if you choose to believe that reality is intelligible and that the intellect is reliable, then it is reasonable to apply the Principle of Sufficient Reason and ask the following questions. Why is reality intelligible and what makes people capable of reason? But of course, these are questions someone ideologically committed to atheism dares not ask.
Rather than ask "Why is reality intelligible" don't we all just assume it may be at least in some cases? If experience hadn't shown it so, why would we continue with it? And just because we have managed to figure a few useful things out doesn't guarantee that we are ready to judge the applicability of intelligence to all of reality. You jump too quickly to absolutes.
As for what makes people capable of reason, why single out humans? You might as well ask it of the entire animal kingdom. Why, when creatures evolve the sensory capacity to perceive aspects of their environment, do they also evolve some ability to judge the significance of what is perceived as well as the ability to act accordingly? We aren't a special case except insofar as we wield symbolic language with which to communicate with others of our kind and to bewilder ourselves in the way you do.
