'from what I read he was making a distinction between belief which is soundly based on logic and reason, and belief which is irrational and serves more to calming our fears and appeasing our emotions (ie religion).'
The thing is it is an odd person who does base there life on the former rather than the latter. Communism, for example, is completly unparctical to implement and, yet, has millions of followers. The same can be said for all out pascifism (despite Gandhi being one of my hero's, it is). There are Platonian philosophies which are the same, and yet people follow them. I doubt there are many that will trully have a logical ideology to lead there life.
The thing is it is an odd person who does base there life on the former rather than the latter. Communism, for example, is completly unparctical to implement and, yet, has millions of followers. The same can be said for all out pascifism (despite Gandhi being one of my hero's, it is). There are Platonian philosophies which are the same, and yet people follow them. I doubt there are many that will trully have a logical ideology to lead there life.
